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FROM THE EDITOR

Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015 On thin ice

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Enviro-friendly Matt Hansen named our 2015 home-grown habitat hero PAGE 10

Australian Ballet Brodie James and Valerie Tereshchenko have the world at their feet PAGE 30

Karen Barlow

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Clare Edwards

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Local Land Services is promoting the value of native grasses PAGE 46

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Jazz jams Dubbo’s ‘25 years of jazz’ celebration: out with the old and in with the new PAGE 62

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Seven Days Tony Webber Paul Dorin Watercooler What I Do Know Sally Bryant

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A national wardance? Australia’s got the Goodes HIS time in a fortnight, I’ll be sitting in a stadium in Auckland – waiting for the Wallabies to run onto the paddock to face off against the All Blacks in the second clash of the annual battle of rugby wills that is the Bledisloe Cup. It would be nice to think we’ll be one up by that point and while I’m looking forward to flying the flag, what I’m most excited about – given there’s a better than even chance our lads will be coming back across the ditch without the silverware in their kit – is watching the men in black perform their traditional haka before a packed stadium full of fired-up Kiwis. There’s nothing quite like it. The stands fall silent. The players crouch. The first growl of the traditional Maori challenge rings out and a tingle runs the length of every spine. The opponents fix their faces in defiance – I’d be wetting myself, just quietly – as the “warriors” face them, tongues protruding, muscles rippling, eyes ablaze with the fire of impending battle. It’s a mark of respect – a nod to the worth of opponents; a combatants’ call to action in the face of an esteemed foe; an awe inspiring display of tradition that’s as moving as it is terrifying. The haka is one of the most revered traditions in international sport, and the Kiwis – black, white and brindle – have embraced it as part of their national identity. The haka is seldom viewed these days as an exclusively Maori tradition – it’s come to represent New Zealand’s collective identity. It’s admired, it’s honoured and it’s widely envied. I’ve watched my own son square up against the haka on the rugby field, and often wished his team – and our national team – had a comparable answer to such a celebrated display of national unity. How great would it be if Australia had its own version of the haka? A “war cry” with the ability to unite a country. A display of accord on a common goal. Something that reflects both our proud indigenous history and the maturity of our united future. Yeah – wouldn’t that be something? Wait a minute... Isn’t that exactly the opportunity we have here with the ongoing kerfuffle over former Australian of the Year and celebrated indigenous AFL player Adam Goodes’ on-field “war dance” moves being roundly booed by followers of the code? I don’t know the man and I don’t follow AFL, so I can’t say for sure there’s not an element of dickheadery going on with his increasing determination to fire up his detractors – maybe there’s an edge of belligerence, but who could blame the bloke? The Kiwis come across the ditch and challenge our teams with a haka – a tradition deeply rooted in blood-thirsty indigenous history – and the crowd goes wild with anticipatory appreciation. An Aboriginal sportsman mimics

throwing an imaginary spear, and the crowd goes wild for a completely different reason. Suddenly, the momentary nod to culture is racially motivated? A show of aggression that’s deliberately designed to divide? Is this resistance racially motivated? We’d like to think not, but in our hearts we all know it’s at least in part because Goodes is overtly wearing his Aboriginality on his sleeve and we’re just not used to that from sportspeople in this country. We love that Aboriginal people are so often remarkably gifted when it comes to athletic ability, but we’d like them to “just be Australian”. It’s a not entirely unjustified aim, but can’t we have both? Can’t we celebrate the fact that we – as Australians all, let us rejoice – have one of the oldest living cultures on the planet, and embrace that history as part of our collective identity? And when that identity revolves so closely – like it or not – around sport, isn’t that a perfect place to start? We pay only passing tribute to indigenous culture when we gather. There’ll be the “Welcome to Coun- How great try” and a nice little display of Aboriginal traditional would it be dance, complete with cute if Australia little dark-eyed kids wearing feathers and white zinc had its own and we clap politely and pa- version of ternalistically before some the haka? bloke in a suit takes the podium to announce whatever Wouldn’t he’s there to announce. that be We can do better – on a whole bunch of fronts. We something? can start by putting aside Wait a the minutiae of the argument over whether Goodes minute... is a pioneer or a poseur, and take from the controversy the opportunity to build our own version of the haka. Something that, in time, we’ll see white kids lining up alongside black team-mates to perform with passion and pride in the face of a challenge. I’m looking forward to watching NRL greats Jonathon Thurston and Greg Inglis perform a traditional indigenous war dance as a show of unity with Goodes ahead of their game this weekend – and it’s no mean feat to get me to watch NRL, mind. I’ll be hoping their display prompts more than the predictable howls of “reverse racism” from those determined to perpetuate division. I’m hoping we see something we can replicate as our own version of that incredibly powerful statement that is the haka. It wouldn’t be the first thing we’ve nicked from our cousins across the ditch, including half the players in the NRL – maybe they can give us some pointers on how it’s done. Now, if we can just get them, and Adam Goodes, to switch to rugby union... ■

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New service a bloody good idea THE gift of an esky, even one presented by the Deputy Premier, doesn’t usually warrant a phalanx of media and a line-up of luminary locals. But this was no ordinary esky and the recipient is no ordinary organisation. The humble insulated box handed this week to the Royal Flying Doctor Service by Member for Dubbo Troy Grant is the symbol of a new protocol that will pump life-saving blood into the veins of the state’s remote regions. Grant joined RFDS, NSW Ambulance and health district staff and supporters to welcome a new partnership between the region’s health providers that will allow haemorrhaging patients to receive life-saving blood transfusions in the air. Competing with the roar of an RFDS aircraft coming in to land, the Deputy Premier explained the new protocol will mean blood and blood products can now be stored on RFDS planes, allowing flight nurses and retrieval doctors to perform blood transfusions on patients suffering persistent life threatening bleeding, all while in the air. Jon Newman, Project Manager, NSW Ambulance, said the innovative approach is part of a larger project called the Emergency Early Activation of Transfusion Service, which aims to deliver lifesaving blood products to patients in remote areas. The blood products are monitored daily and regularly rotated with blood stores by Pathology West (located at Dubbo Hospital), to maintain the quality of the blood and to ensure there is no blood product wastage. In welcoming the announcement, Emergency Physician Dr Randall Greenburg said the protocol would improve patient outcomes by bringing care to the patient and enabling remote communities in western NSW to have access to critical haemorrhagic care. One RFDS staff member who knows just how life-saving this new protocol will be is Senior Flight Nurse Karen Barlow, who says the ability to carry extra and adequate blood and blood products will make the delivery of critical care more efficient

and effective. “Previously, if we were going to a trauma we’d ring the hospital and they’d bring four units, or pack cells (of blood) out for us to take with us,” she says by way of explanation. “But now, the Retrieval Unit in Sydney – which is where we’re “tasked” from – will get the call to say, for instance, someone’s fallen off their motorbike somewhere out west and fractured their pelvis and they have a couple of broken legs, and they will instigate the Massive Transfusion Protocol through the Emergency Early Activation of Transfusion Service. “They’ll ring pathology at Dubbo hospital and they’ll get us what we need, because it’s not just blood we need, but anticoagulants as well. So when we get out to the patient, not only can we give them blood, we can give them the clotting factor to help them stop bleeding,” says the RFDS nurse of 16 years’ experience. “It just gives us that little bit of extra time to get them to the tertiary centre or to Dubbo or Orange or wherever we’re taking them.” Barlow says that until this protocol was put in place, the crews would “just grab whatever blood we had and go”. “Now it’s instigated before we’re even tasked – so it’s all in action and underway before we even get the call. It’s time saving; it’s lifesaving.” Barlow says that while there are some trauma injuries for which no amount of blood and no amount of clotting factor is going to make any difference. “But there have been others where you know that by giving them this clotting factor, you’re buying that little bit of extra time.” It’s a service that will bring the kind of medical care to remote areas that metropolitan residents, and emergency medical professionals, take for granted. “If you have a car accident in Sydney and you’re trapped, they can give you blood and clotting agents on the scene. Now this process has been initiated out here, we can take that with us as well. Before, we could only take what was on the shelf, basically.” It’s a move, she says, that

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I’ve seen instances where lives would have been saved if this protocol had been in place. This is a good thing. A very good thing. – Karen Barlow, Senior Flight Nurse with the RFDS

Deputy Premier and Member for Dubbo Troy Grant presents the sympbolic esky to RFDS CEO Greg Sam and Jon Newman from NSW Ambulance

will make the Dubbo-based RFDS team’s job so much more efficient – it will save lives. “I’ve seen instances where lives would have been saved if this protocol had been in place. We’ve always been able to get blood from the hospital, but this protocol formalises the process. The supply of the blood and clotting factors that we need is already in motion before we even get the call. This is a good

thing. A very good thing.” Barlow says the solution to the problem of in-flight access to blood and blood products is welcome. “The whole project has revolved around putting the patient at the heart of our planning. Our 24/7 aeromedical emergency services are critical for bringing first class health services to people in the bush so we were very happy to be part

of this project.” Barlow also extended her thanks to the RFDS’ Dubbo Support Group for raising the much needed funds that allowed for the purchase of “blood warmers” and “blood eskies” to make the new service possible. “We are so grateful for their support and generosity.” Never has an esky been such a bloody good idea. Q

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Winds of change heat BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY NSW FARMERS and the Volunteer Fire Fighting (VFFA) associations have joined forces in support of the Rural Fire Service (RFS) Sydney headquarters relocating to a regional centre when its current Homebush premises lease expires in 2018. Farmers from the central west voted in favour of NSW Farmers lobbying for the move, winning full support from the VFFA, which had previously requested the emergency services minister, David Elliot, seriously consider a regional RFS headquarters. A letter dated May 29, from the minister to the vice president of the VFFA and sighted by Dubbo Weekender, outlines the necessary support services – primarily access to media – as cause to discount a regional centre as feasible. “It’s currently a city-based organisation so the bulk of the work force is comfortable where they are and they think it’s important to be in touch with the media. The most important thing is to build the best fire fighting service that we can,” VFFA vice president, Brian Williams told Weekender. Williams is a captain at the Currajong Heights Brigade. “Technological barriers that in the past may have mitigated against the relocation of the RFS to a rural area are no longer relevant. Improvements in technology and communications such as the development of the Internet, email, on-line video-conferencing and the National Broad Band (NBN) network render the argument against relocation to a rural regional centre nonsensical,” he said. “It is an expensive service for

Brian Williams and crew working on a remotely located Fire in the Wollemi National Park.

tax payers and to decentralise the RFS would bring enormous cost benefits in the long term. “It’s called the Rural Fire Service. Our main area of responsibility is to regional NSW. It’s a golden opportunity they have to move and it meets the NSW government’s decentralisation requirements. We think it’s a no brainer,” Williams said. Reg Kidd, Orange City councillor and executive councillor of NSW Farmers, agrees. “We’re all very passionate

about decentralisation and regionalisation. Today’s technology opens up opportunities. Sydney is expensive for rental, the traffic is congested, housing is expensive. Regional NSW has the answer to all those problems. We know Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong; and they don’t have the infrastructure to take it anymore,” Kidd said. “In the case of the Rural Fire Service it has to be centrally located. It can’t be Tamworth,

Armidale, Albury or Wagga Wagga. We’re talking Dubbo to Bathurst, maybe Parkes in that central NSW, all with great facilities. “That’s what it’s called, the Rural Fire Service. They don’t have the City of Sydney Council based at Currajong or Dubbo. I know there’s certain times you have to meet with ministers in Sydney. They were the same arguments put up with the department of Ag moved to Orange 20 years ago. They said it

` Improvements in technology and communications... render the argument against relocation to a rural regional centre nonsensical. – VFFA vice president, Brian Williams

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ing up for new fire HQ wouldn’t work but it did work.” Dubbo Mayor, Mathew Dickerson, said the Dubbo City Council has written to the Deputy Premier and Member for Dubbo Troy Grant outlining the features of Dubbo that make the City ideally suited as a permanent headquarters for the NSW Rural Fire Service. “Economically for Dubbo the injection of potentially hundreds of new jobs would be enormous. An organisation such as the RFS with in the order of 350 jobs would have a direct economic impact of some $70 million and create a total of 620 jobs through flow on effects such as business purchases of goods and services and consumption such as purchases of groceries, petrol and general living expenses,” Dickerson said. State Government agencies and branches already in Dubbo include the State Water headquarters and regional or district offices including Local Land Services, Juvenile Justice, Service NSW, Family and Community Services, Education and Communities and the Crown Lands Business Centre. “Dubbo also remains a prime candidate for any future decentralisation of government services and will continue to look for opportunities where this could occur,” according to Dickerson.

Right: Brian Williams being inserted by helicopter onto a large rock in the Gross River, Blue Mountains National Park, and checking maps PHOTOS: VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION

RETURNING strategic control to volunteer fire fighting districts and the overall safety for volunteer fire fighters remains a priority for the VFFA in their bid to convince government to bring the RFS out of Sydney. “There are over 70,000 volunteers and 2000 brigades spread over the state. Every major region has a district office, and a fire is really controlled by those district offices. There is not enough responsibility given to the districts. The local people are the ones with the expertise and knowledge to deal with fires in his or her location,” said Williams. “Fire fighting in NSW has been changed from a fire pre-

` All our ministers and local members need to give a push. It’s easy to talk lingo that we’re pro decentralisation and regionalisation. I think the stars are aligning. – Reg Kidd, NSW Farmers executive and Orange City Councillor.

vention force to a fire reactive one. The fires are getting bigger in the off-season. We’re currently burning less than 1 per cent of fire prone areas. “Over the years, Greens have opposed broad scale hazard reduction. Governments got in power by pandering to the Greens. We’re particularly keen to stop our national parks getting incinerated. “We’re pushing the envelope. I worry whether I want to be responsible any more. In years gone by we did our own hazard reduction and control of our own area. Now we’re losing control. The system should be in helping,” Williams said. The RFS and VFFA have been embroiled in a long stand-off over broad scale hazard reduction management practices, fuelled in part by the Wambelong fire public enquiry into the causes and management of the Warrumbungles blaze of January 2013. The Rural Fire Service issued a statement from its deputy commissioner, Rob Rogers who said: “The NSW RFS has faced a number of challenging fire seasons in recent years. Lessons learnt from these seasons will

also inform decisions regarding the location and design of the new headquarters building. “The key consideration for selecting a new location is that it will enable the NSW RFS to continue to provide a world class emergency service to the community.” The statement outlined factors enabling the provision of a world-class emergency service as including the availability of key functional services and resources, such as redundant power supply and high speed data infrastructure; geographical proximity to other emergency service agencies for coordinated fire fighting efforts and accessibility for media, which provides the community with essential key safety messages and warnings during major incidents. “While it would be preferable to remain in the current premises, a search for a new location has commenced,” Rogers said. “Any large NSW Government Department such as the Rural Fire Service in Dubbo will greatly assist the NSW Government meet its objectives regarding decentralisation and have a significant effect on the region-

al economy in a strategically important area for NSW,” according to Dubbo mayor Mathew Dickerson. “What it does for regional economies is unbelievable, with school, shops, education and career opportunities. All our ministers and local members need to give a push. It’s easy to talk lingo that we’re pro decentralisation and regionalisation. I think the stars are aligning,” Kidd said. “The VFFA acknowledges that he relocation of the RFS to a rural regional centre would not be without problems, however provided it is strategically planned and well managed, the decentralisation of the RFS would be beneficial to rural NSW. The termination of the lease on the current RFS head office at Homebush provides a great opportunity for the NSW Government to put the ‘rural’ back into the Rural Fire Service,” Williams said. The NSW RFS is considering relocation after being advised by Government Property NSW that property owner Goodman will not renew the current lease for 15 Carter Street when it expires in 2018. ■

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The future of police, indigenous relations

State IPROWD Coordinator Peter Gibbs (left) with Ricki Johnson, graduate from the IPROWD program, TAFE Western. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER/ CONNOR COMAN-SARGENT

Indigenous communities and the police have endured a rocky relationship for generations. Not content to wait for change from without, indigenous leaders are making changes from within, and then paying it forward, one new recruit at a time. BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY “IT was the proudest day of my life. I rang my mother to tell her and she said, “you are no son of mine; don’t ever contact me again.”” This is the retelling of a conversation between a student of the IPROWD (Indigenous Police Recruitment Our Way Delivery) program student, and their mother on graduation day. It’s indicative of the ingrained resentment towards the police force in indigenous communities, that a mother would abandon association to her blood before acknowledging they want to be one of “them”. It’s the kind of cultural hurdle that has gridlocked mediation and cohesion, until now. With a support network that understands what’s in behind – or not – its participants, the IPROWD team has so far seen 500 students pursue their dreams of

trying to enter the police force. “It’s all positive. There is no downside to it,” says state IPROWD coordinator Peter Gibbs, who is widely credited with the idea of the program, following the death of his sister in the Brewarrina police lockup. “You’re taking major steps ahead when you’re able to train and develop Aboriginal people to be police officers. They can come back into their communities and be able to relate with and communicate with young people who battle that relationship between the police.” Ricki Johnson, 34, a recent graduate from the IPROWD program and who waits for word if his application to the NSW Police Academy in Goulburn is successful, has received nothing but support. As a child, that support came from the police. “I remember when I was a kid seeing the police officers; they were my heroes because a lot of

indigenous kids grow up with domestic violence. Having the police around was a good thing as they were the only ones that would stop it. Now with the drugs and everything like that, they’re fighting a terrible battle against that too,” Johnson says. “There weren’t indigenous officers that I can remember. They were all big white guys. I don’t even remember female

` Police tell us the most effective tool anyone can have won’t be hanging off their belts. Listening is the most difficult communication technique. – Peter Gibbs, IPROWD coordinator

officers.” Then as now, the police played a vital role in protecting people from themselves, which meant tough decisions on intruding on family and community units. “Some kids have seen police officers come in and take their parents away when they’ve been drunk or something like that, and they haven’t understood the police are there to help not to hinder. “I want to be there to say, “we’re here to help”; to let them know “don’t worry, you’ll be safe”. “A lot of police officers say when they walk down the street or in the mall, they hear parents say, ‘Watch out the police are going to take you’. They put fear in them. The police don’t like that. They want the kids to go to the police officers if they need help and not run away from them.”

COMMUNICATION is a key component of the IPROWD Certificate III program and techniques learned are practiced in the classroom and in the field, volunteering at Apollo House. “Police tell us the most effective tool anyone can have won’t be hanging off their belts. Listening is the most difficult communication technique,” says Gibbs. “At Apollo House we muck around with the kids, give them support and something to do. When it’s raining we play board games and they get to ask us about IPROWD and what we’re doing. It’s really good. They’re good kids, they’re just in bad situations,” says Johnson. Those bad situations are compounded by unhealthy lifestyles, which contribute to unhealthy relationships. “That’s my passion,” Gibbs says. “I want to see people get healthier and move away from drugs, drink, smoking and u

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The future of police and indigenous relations (continued) u eating poorly and the soft drinks. Diabetes is killing our people; I think it’s something like 40 per cent of Aboriginal people have diabetes and very young people too caused by dietary issues, which are all lifestyle related. “This is why we can use IPROWD as a vehicle for changing the mindset, just like Rick, going through the last couple of years; he’s had a complete mindset change about how you live, eat, and so on.” Two years ago, Johnson was more than 80 kilograms heavier than he is today which represented the biggest obstacle for him being accepted into IPROWD. “I had to lose weight to get into this course and I lost 86 kilos to do it. I just changed my diet and cut away all the fast food and the soft drinks. Once you start changing and you stop eating those kinds of things you lose the taste for them.” The moment of truth came about in Queensland, which put Johnson on a path toward recovery from a self-destructive lifestyle. “About three years ago I went up to Townsville to see my brother where he’s in the army. I was carrying his daughter, my niece, to the water, and I was just walking on the beach and I started to puff and pant. I looked around at my brother and he had tears running down his face, and he said, “I don’t think you’re going to live for another year”, and I said, “I don’t think I am either”. “That’s pretty much when I thought I’m going to lose weight and try for the police academy and see how I go. If you’ve got the will to do it, you can. Today people that have known me for years walk straight past me. It opened up a lot of doors, but all I wanted was the police force. It’s pushed me to want more.” Gibbs says that apart from the health benefits and lifestyle benefits, Johnson’s is an inspirational story for other people who can battle the same issues. “Rick will be a great role model for us and come into the classroom to talk about these sort of issues.” AS he tells of his weight loss journey, Johnson’s tone is confident, something indigenous youths struggle to find within themselves without proper support from their environment. “He’s enthusiastic. He’s wanting to learn, wanting to do more, you have to unplug his batteries sometimes,” says Gibbs of Johnson. Gibbs and the IPROWD program team form that support network to see them through to the other side where, if accept-

Breaking new ground: IPROWD participants, right, and the program in action, above. PHOTOS: DUBBO WEEKENDER

ed into the police, it will make the greatest difference. “Peter can see the potential of indigenous people, it’s just that we don’t push ourselves,” says Johnson. “He wants indigenous people to stand up and not to be slackers. The way he talks about it is just unbelievable.” Gibbs also sees potential for making profound changes to the police from inside out. “We’re only going to have about 1000 police officers in a

` It’s not just indigenous, it’s everyone else as well. I want to help everybody. – Ricki Johnson, IPROWD graduate

16,000 force so it’s about influencing your colleagues, about how they relate to indigenous people. Who best to educate your colleagues on how to relate to Aboriginal people than Aboriginal people. It’s not something you can read about in a book. “It’s people like Rick sitting in a police truck in the future, with a person who’s not Aboriginal, working in an Aboriginal area educating that person about how to relate, how to disperse a situation, how to calm it down and with a young person to not just lock them up. We’re trying to get Aboriginal people out of the justice system. “This is a great strategy by

having Aboriginal police officers working with their colleagues. “We’re talking about something that’s been around for generations, the relationship between Aboriginals and police,” Gibbs says. “If we don’t start something and nurture and always support it, IPROWD will be like just any other government program. It will come and go. It saddened me we were advocating recently whether or not IPROWD ought to be funded again or not. To me it’s not logical. From any point of view, even though I’m biased, take a step back and think, goodness me, with all the things we spend money on,

this didn’t make sense that it didn’t get support. “It took some advocacy to get the decision changed. Now we’re able to announce $2.5M for another couple of years. When you’re onto a winner, you stick to it.” The way forward for Johnson is the drug squad but first he must get into the academy then do three years of general duties. His sights are set on a broader picture beyond just closing the chasm between police and indigenous community relations. “That’s one of the things, but it’s not just indigenous, it’s everyone else as well. I want to help everybody.” ■

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Hansen named our home-grown habitat hero BY JEN COWLEY WHEN Matt Hansen heard his name called as the winner of the 2015 National Habitat Hero, he was speechless. For the Dubbo-based fishing aficionado and real estate agent, that’s saying something. Hansen, the president of Inland Waterways Rejuvenation Association (IWRA), was attending the national Recreational Fishing Conference at the Gold Coast last week when he was called to accept the prestigious gong – bestowed for his work with the IWRA and in promoting the health and wellbeing of inland waterways. He was uncharacteristically lost for words. “I didn’t think I had any kind of chance of actually winning it,” Hansen says, now back in Dubbo and clutching the impressive award. “Not with the scale of some of the projects that are being undertaken in places like South Australia with the establishment of artificial reefs, and some of the rehabilitation work being done on the Murray River and the Darling Basin for instance. “I was absolutely blown away.” That Hansen and IWRA were singled out from such luminary competitors is testament to the simplicity and practicality of the project, which has grown from humble beginnings to a benchmark for effective community-driven environmental awareness. “We were asked to do a presentation at the conference about what we’re doing on the ground. We explained how we’re just a bunch of recreational anglers, all with normal jobs and lives, who started with a simple idea of how to improve the health of our waterways by running a raffle to raise money to buy fish for our river, and then how our understanding grew as to how to rehabilitate the rivers through habitat and

grow the system holistically.” Hansen laughs as he recalls how IWRA came to be. “I met Michael O’Neill, our vice president, when he used to come into the camping shop where I was working in the fishing section. We both shared a common goal of getting some fingerlings for the river to making fishing better for locals, so I bought an Engel fridge, which I put on my credit card, to raffle off to raise funds.” At that stage, Hansen says he was just hoping to get enough money back to pay for the fridge. “We raised $16,000. And that’s what led to the establishment of IWRA.” It’s an indication of just how popular fishing is as a pursuit for regional people, but the support for IWRA indicates a deeper desire on the part of recreational anglers for sustaining and maintaining the health of inland waterways. “When we started out and looked into what we were dealing with, it was a real shock. To learn that native fish stocks had been depleted by 70-90 per cent in inland waters since European settlement... well, that’s an alarming statistic. You can’t get much worse apart from extinction.” IWRA has gained enough momentum to start beeping on the radar of all three levels of government, but Hansen says the way politics works is a lesson in itself. “All the states work differently and all the levels of government work differently. It really seems to me that in the recreational fishing sector there are so many individual interests and so many different perspectives, and there are any number of different challenges they face – it’s a real mish-mash message coming from a federal level. “But there are some good things happening around Australia and funding is coming through for some really valua-

Matt Hansen with Senator Richard Colbeck at the National Recreational Fishing Conference where Hansen was named 2015 National Habitat Hero copy

Matt Hansen on the banks of the Macquarie River. PHOTO: CLANCY JOB/FILE

ble projects.” Speaking of valuable projects, Hansen says IWRA has secured a $60,000 grant for a project happening on the Macquarie River as we speak. “It’s called Mending our Macquarie, and the support from the state government has been fantastic.” In practical terms, being named 2015 National Habitat Hero is another notch in Hansen’s armoury of weap-

ons against the destruction of inland waterways and fish habitats. “The networks that have been opened by us being at the conference and receiving this award will be really valuable as we continue our work here in the region. The biggest win out of all this is the number of contacts we’ve established from all these fantastic people and organisations – they can all help us with what we’re trying to do

` To learn that native fish stocks had been depleted by 70-90 per cent in inland waters since European settlement... well, that’s an alarming statistic. You can’t get much worse apart from extinction. – Matt Hansen

and vice versa. They have their own individual fields of expertise that we’ll now be able to draw on. “They all love what we’re doing because of its simplicity and because it’s engaging recreational fishers. One lady from Victoria who is in government there came up to us and said, “You guys are the missing link to uniting recreational fishers and empowering them at the grassroots level.” That was a really nice pat on the back. “We’re certainly not scientists or researchers, but what we do seem to have is a method and a way of helping a local fishing group to become financial and drive projects at a grassroots level. If we can keep that rolling with more fishing clubs with that simple methodology then that would be a really powerful thing.”

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Injection of funds an ice-breaker THE state’s Assistant Health and Mental Health Minister Pru Goward was in town with local member and Deputy Premier Troy Grant this week, and the pair came bearing gifts – notably, a $4million injection of funds to help regional non-government organisations to tackle the growing problem of the drug “ice” in local communities. The funding – tenders for which will open in September with contracts to be announced in December – will target treatment strategies to help local services deal with the fall-out from methamphetamine use along with the manufacture and supply of the drug which is devastating communities across regional NSW. It’s all part of what Troy Grant says is a co-ordinated strategy to have non-government organisations work closely with local health districts to complement the range of drug and alcohol services available throughout the region. “Police are doing a great job in detecting drugs and getting them off our streets,” he said. “But more needs to be done to treat those already addicted.” In announcing the funding, Minister Goward said it was clear the prevalence of ice in regional communities is higher than the state average, with an alarming increase in the number of hospital presentations. The Minister spent the morning in meetings with local health and non-government organisations to begin nutting out what the programs funded by this $4million injection might look like, with a focus on finding “local solutions”. “We know the intensive solutions you find in Sydney just won’t work in areas like the Dubbo region where you have a number of small communities with relatively high incidents of ice use and abuse.” Goward wouldn’t elaborate on what those programs would look like, except to say the focus will be “solutions that work for regional areas and are not just brought in from a metropolitan area”. According to Troy Grant, “one size does not fit all” in the fight against the ice “epidemic” in regional areas. “What we need in the west will be different to what we need in the south and in the north and in the east. We want models that will meet individual community needs – local solutions. This specialist funding will allow that – that’s the real winner here. We’re not going to have some sort of model

Assistant Minister for Health and Minister for Mental Health, Pru Goward, with Western Local Health District’s Scott McLachlan (left) and Member for Dubbo Troy Grant. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER.

dumped on us.” The $4million fund will not be used for the establishment of a rehab centre in Dubbo, despite a push from some sectors of the community for such a facility, and Grant says there’s a tendency towards misconception about rehabilitation. “It isn’t always about bricks and mortar plonked in one location – there are services that are offered in homes, in the community, in places other than a specific facility. “If you’re going to pack someone off and send them to a bricks and mortar facility every time, their chances of rehabilitation success are significantly diminished. If you can try to rehabilitate them by providing that service close or near to their home environment there will be a much greater hope of success. The scoping of this program is part of that aspect.” Asked if a “bricks and mortar” rehabilitation centre is on

the agenda for Dubbo, in light of calls from some sectors for such a service, the Member for Dubbo said it was something that’s “always on our minds”. “I currently have the Justice Department scoping out a trial of a drug court here in Dubbo, and once that scoping is done we’ll know what our opportunities are, but the door to those kinds of investments and opportunities is never closed. We just have to make sure that whatever we do, we want it to work – we want to get it right.” Ed’s note: Weekender takes a look at the ice issue through the eyes of those at the coalface – the police and the users. See Page 22

Police locate driver involved in fatal crash A 34-year-old man was arrested at Lucknow near Orange this week following a fatal collision that claimed the life of 75-yearold Mirko Barbaric on Tuesday

night. Police from Canobolas Local Area Command were called to a crash between two vehicles on the Mitchell Highway 12km east of Orange at about 9.10pm, where they found the driver of a van deceased and no sign of the driver of the utility involved in the collision. Witnesses told police the driver of the ute left the scene shortly after the crash, with an intensive search of the area ensuing. Police told the media they were concerned the man, who witnesses said had sustained a head injury, may have collapsed somewhere in nearby paddocks and the SES was called in to help with the search. Police made the arrest at a property near Lucknow at 4 o’clock the following afternoon, after the property’s owner found the 34 year old asleep in the cab of a tractor. He was taken to Orange Police Station and then to Orange

Health Service for treatment of a suspected fractured sternum. Investigators seized several items for forensic examination and the man has been released pending further enquiries. Early investigations indicate that the van and utility collided head on while driving in opposite directions on the Mitchell Highway, flipping the utility onto its roof. Police have renewed their appeal for anyone that witnessed the incident or has information that could assist investigators to contact Orange Police Station on 02 6363 6399 or Crime Stoppers. Meanwhile, a teenager was set to face court during the week after allegedly fleeing police in a stolen car at Parkes on Tuesday night. Police attempted to stop the vehicle for a random breath test but the driver allegedly sped away and a pursuit was initiated. The chase reached speeds of more than 150km/h.; ending after the vehicle suffered a mechanical failure. Police arrested three teenage boys, all aged 16, who were taken to Parkes Police Station. The alleged driver of the vehicle has been charged with a number of offences including take and drive conveyance, learner unaccompanied, police pursuit, possession of a weapon upon arrest, and custody of a knife. He was refused bail and appeared in children’s court on Wednesday. The two other teenagers were released without charge.

Wellington tip-off nets stolen firearms A TIP-OFF from the public, made through Crime Stoppers, has led to the recovery of two firearms believed to have been stolen from a property in Wellington. Police from Orana Local Area Command went to a home in Wellington’s Gobolion Street following the tip off, where they allegedly located a white Hyundai Excel. During a search of the car, police allegedly found a rifle and a shotgun in the boot, believed to have been stolen from a property in Wellington last week. The car and firearms were seized and will undergo forensic examinations. Investigations into the incident are continuing and police have extended their thanks to the community for its assistance. Continued next page u

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Korean tick of approval for region’s training THE region’s education and training options have received a big international tick of approval, with delegates from Korea’s Catholic Sangji College (CSC) saying they were impressed by the capacity of local training providers to deliver world-class options across a wide-ranging area of study. Hosted by Regional Development Australia Orana, the delegation visited TAFE, the CSU campus and Fletcher International Exports – touring facilities, sitting in on various faceto-face lessons and witnessing video-conferencing technology at work. The outcome of the visit was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between CSC and TAFE Western for academic partnership and articulation of courses. The group toured the CSU campus and were particularly impressed by the new dental facility, as well as the enthusiasm of students taking part in a nursing class. The delegates were also interested to learn about some of Australia’s history from CSU Dubbo’s Head of Campus and Foundation Professor of Indigenous Studies, Jeannie Herbert. Delegates also visited Fletchers International, taking part in a tour of the facilities and

Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015 | Dubbo Weekender sor Jacki Parish credited the silver gong to the centre’s staff and ambassadors. “Knowledgeable and friendly staff that are genuinely committed to making a visit to Dubbo a great experience can influence a visitor’s length of stay which in turn is good for the local economy.” Parish said the award also recognises improvements that have been made to the centre, including a deck for visitors, free Wi-Fi and mobile phone charging stations. At the awards ceremony, Dubbo’s Taronga Western Plains Zoo was also inducted into the Hall of Fame, while other finalists from Dubbo included Trike Adventures, Manera Heights Apartments and the Dubbo Stampede.

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discussing details of a training partnership arrangement through an MOU. During the discussions, CSC showed excitement towards partnering with Fletchers to capitalise on training not available in South Korea. “International education is Australia’s third-largest export,” said Felicity Taylor-Edwards, CEO of RDA Orana. “As we look to diversify the

region’s economic base, this is certainly an avenue that should be and is being explored.”

Silver lining for local tourist outfits DUBBO’S Visitor Information Centre and the Old Dubbo Gaol were among the local tourism outfits to take out silver awards as this year’s Inland Tourism Awards ceremony at Broken

Hill last weekend. Old Dubbo Gaol collected silver in the Cultural Tourism category while silver in the Visitor Information Services category also went to Dubbo. Old Dubbo Gaol Supervisor, Merrin Starr said the award recognises the unique experience the popular attraction offers to a wide range of visitors. Dubbo City Council’s Visitor Information Services Supervi-

AFTER a promising recommendation last week from the Planning and Development Committee to approve the development of an 84-dwelling housing complex for the city’s seniors, Dubbo City Council has decided to defer the development application pending a review of the traffic implications of the complex. The application for the development, to be built adjacent to Yarrawonga Estate in East Dubbo, has been temporarily stalled subject to a request for Roads and Maritime

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Rural health report “a first of its kind” THIS week saw the launch of a rural health report from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, for the first time bringing together the most comprehensive evidence-based data available to better understand the health issues facing rural and regional populations across Australia. The report, Medical Research and Rural Health – Garvan Report 2015 is the first of its kind, providing valuable and compelling insight into rural health in Australia.

For the past three years, Garvan’s Healthy Families, Healthy Communities program has taken the researchers to many centres in rural and regional Australia, including Dubbo, to share important messages about health and medical research with the community. Garvan Research Foundation CEO, Andrew Giles said the report continues to strengthen that community “conversation” and build on the program’s initiative to increase understanding of the need for, and importance of medical research across the broader community. Examining health in line with the National Health Priority Areas (NHPAs) of asthma; arthritis; cancer control; cardiovascular health; diabetes; mental health; obesity, and dementia, the report provides context, where available, with the wider Australian population and these conditions. “The facts and figures contained in the report ensure the broader context facing rural and regional populations is readily available to all stakeholders. The foundation of all good policy is a solid information base and a good understanding of the realities facing any sector of the population,” said Giles. “This Report makes a valuable contribution to this process and resource to policy makers. The Report also provides interesting information for all Australians, be they living in metropolitan, rural or regional Australia.”

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Fever pitch It’s one of the most insidious diseases imaginable, striking at the heart of rural Australia, destroying lives and confounding medical science. Q-fever is cruel, it’s increasingly common and it’s vastly misunderstood. But sufferers are beginning to find their voice, writes JOHN RYAN. ICK CARNEY was forced to walk away from the shearing game that was central to his life after contracting Q-Fever. Thirty years on, at age 72, he says he’s been devastated by the illness. “It zapped me – I couldn’t go back,” Carney says. “It impacted on me mentally because I lost my strength and just didn’t want to go to shearing anymore, I couldn’t pull a ram out. I’ve never given up; I’ve been trying ever since to fix it but I’ve had to look at different work like driving trucks and coaches.” For evidence of just how widespread and unreported Q-fever is, look no further than Dick Carney’s family. Of the 14 kids – 10 boys and four girls – nine boys who went shearing were hit by the illness which is caused by bacterial infection, usually transmitted by livestock. At a forum run by not-for-profit organisation Macquarie 2100* for Sydney University at Narromine last week, 28 people attended and many more wanted to, even though the forum was designed for just six to eight people. One lady I’ve known for years stopped me in the main street to ask what I was

doing in Narromine. When I told her we were running a Q-fever forum she said the illness had hammered her brother’s life after he contracted it in the 1990s. These sorts of stories just go on and on. People I’ve known for 30 years were calling to say they had Q-fever and it had ruined their lives, yet none had ever mentioned to me they’d contracted it, and they didn’t discuss it with anyone else. It’s like the disease is so unfathomable that no-one would be able to believe it – and there’s precious little mainstream recognition of the existence of Q-fever. The forum was enlightening, with all present concerned that the risks of the disease are not highlighted, and that sufferers are left pretty much on their own. That’s if doctors diagnose it in the first place. Claims emerged that many sufferers had been given the medical run-around for years and had found it difficult to get doctors to test them for Q-fever. Others were sick of medical professionals treating them like hypochondriacs, or like people scamming for workers compensation claims. People stayed for an hour after the fo-

rum, just pleased to be able to talk with others who understood what they were going through. It was an indication of just how desperately comradeship and support is needed for all those who have been battling in silence against so many unknowns. This medical wasteland has seen many people, overloaded with antidepressants, end their lives, the Black Dog becoming too much to bear. Western medicine has no cure for Qfever. Many sufferers related how they were put on cocktails of drugs for anorexia and all sorts of other illnesses just because there was no clue as to how to treat them. The ABC’s Landline program ran its first story on Q-fever a couple of weeks ago and the network’s feedback avenues melted down, such was the overwhelming response from sufferers sick of being ignored. Locally, the public health switchboard went into overdrive. Macquarie 2100 was asked to set up a national Facebook page through which sufferers could easily get information from others who’d spent decades on the same road. However, the week before, just such a page had been set up by Barb

Willoughby, one of the people who appeared on the Landline program, who felt compelled to do it because of the enormous feedback she’d received from people across Australia. So here we have individuals, enormously sick, doing the job of the hugely resourced state and federal governments. Reading the posts to the Q-fever (public group) page is heart-wrenching. Paul Connelly is a former journalist who was overjoyed when he learned about the social media platform for sufferers. “I no longer feel alone,” he posted. “I have been in tears for the past hour or so, but I am convinced that the majority is joyous relief.” He told me how he contracted the illness while working the boats off Airlie Beach, far from the dusty winds that carry the disease spores from livestock and other animals. His theory is that he caught it from spores on the clothes of some backpackers also working on the boat, who had recently been employed in the agricultural industry. This is a compelling reason for the need to raise awareness, with many doctors ill-equipped for a country practice,

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015 let alone diagnosing a disease caught far from any animals – it was only a locum who had Q-fever who picked it up after numerous diagnoses and blood tests. Connelly has lost his businesses and has spent his life savings just trying to get himself to the point where he considers his life is worth living, yet he’s still on a knife edge. But, he says, being able to share with fellow sufferers has been a Godsend. ONE bloke he’s been talking to since connecting on Facebook is Dubbo’s Ivan McDonnell. For six years, the well-known local photographer has battled this horrendous affliction, having seven of the nine possible symptoms for chronic acute Q-fever. He’s been on the operating table to have open heart surgery after testing told doctors that’s what he needed, only

for the surgeon to put a camera down before making any cuts to see a heart in perfect condition. Three times McDonnell has been rushed by ambulance to Dubbo Base Hospital where the machines said he had clots on his lungs. Each time this diagnosis has proved incorrect. He says WorkCover medical professionals seemed more interested in getting him off the books, not restoring his health – adding to his already chronically severe stress. “Imagine being so sick you wanted someone to shoot you,” says McDonnell. Combine that with finding it almost impossible on many days even to check the letterbox for mail. Sufferers like McDonnell say they have virtually zero social contact. Doctors tell them there is no cure, but that things may get better over time – there is virtually no light at the end of this tunnel. Add to that the fact that medication so excessive in strength and dosage that it renders patients unable to talk to people because they can’t assemble a coherent sentence – or if conversation is possible, words are slurred are often misinterpreted as drunkenness. For one period of 70 days, McDonnell left his house on just four occasions – three times for doctor’s appointments and once to renew his driver’s licence.

He almost lost his home to the bank, saved only by desperate measures which further taxed what little reserves of physical strength and sanity he possessed. All through this saga, McDonnell was treated with scepticism rather than compassion, ridicule rather than belief and his enforced withdrawal from society almost led to death by his own hand. McDonnell was on so many medications they were sapping his will to live, yet western medicine has no other answers than to keep upping the dosage of pills, with drug companies making huge profits from him while he was still alive and consuming these drugs in feedlot quantities. This is why Q-fever sufferers need the support of the only other people who can really understand what they’re going through. All over Australia now, victims are talking about staging seminars, setting up support groups, lobbying governments. People who have benefitted from various therapies and products are sharing these partial solutions online. The desperation to find any treatments that work is astounding. Paul Connelly again: “I am at the stage that if someone told me to go in the corner, stand on my head, wiggle my right little toe and scratch my right nostril with my left index finger while eating a plum, I would try it,” he says. Save any remnants of sympathy for Natasha Gowing who posted on the Fa-

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cebook support site: “My son was diagnosed with Q-fever in 2009 at 14 months. It was a very scary time for the whole family. It was really hard watching him so unwell for weeks and weeks, (with) the doctors not able to give you any answers.” HEADING up the Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety (University of Sydney), associate professor Tony Lower has a myriad issues on his plate, extending from testifying at coronial inquests into quad bike deaths through to diseases transmitted from livestock to humans. He believes the Q-fever issue is a sleeping giant, massively undiagnosed across the country thanks to a lack of awareness of the disease from those living in rural areas, from many GPs and the health system in general. Associate Professor Lower says he was encouraged by comments from Theodore (QLD) GP Bruce Chater, who featured in the recent Landline episode devoted to the disease, saying he was hoping to help put in place Q-fever training modules for GPs. Meantime Professor Lower is leading a research study into the affliction. “How to best communicate risk prevention messages to the farming community by defining the optimal risk communication pathways?” Lower asks. “The session will present the preliminary results of focus group assessments that have been conducted with u

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u farmers in the Mid North Coast (Kempsey), New England (Tamworth), North Coast (Casino) and Western (Dubbo) regions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From this information the objective is to identify the most practical and relevant ways to assist and communicate with farmers in reducing risks associated with Q-fever,â&#x20AC;? he says Many of the most serious human diseases in Australia are those caught from animals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Q-fever infection is the most common disease transmitted from animals to humans in Australia and the bacteria responsible (Coxiella Burnetti) can survive for long periods in the environment,â&#x20AC;? according to Lower. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Occupational groups such as abattoir workers and veterinarians are at highest risk due to potential exposure from livestock, however farmers are also at increased risk. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While some cases are limited to mild flu-like symptoms, others progress to affect the heart, lungs or liver and can result in chronic fatigue and can have a large impact on affected peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives.â&#x20AC;? The focus group sessions were designed to be conducted with key industry representatives that have an interest in Q-fever, using a semi-structured format to obtain information about existing communication mechanisms on the disease with the farming community and how to improve communication with producers to reduce

` While some cases are limited to mild flu-like symptoms, others progress to affect the heart, lungs or liver and can result in chronic fatigue and can have a large impact on affected peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lives. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Associate Professor Tony Lower

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the risks. Information from the farming groups will be drawn on to examine what is already known by farmers and to investigate ways to prevent Q-fever including safe farming practices (calving and dust exposure and so on), personal hygiene and human vaccination against the illness. The study is a joint project of NSW Health and the University of Sydney and is being conducted by a range of organisations, showing the collaborative approach that is being taken to the issue. Q-fever sufferers are calling on the federal government to bring back a program through which agricultural workers and residents had access to the Q-Vax vaccine. Health Minister Sussan Ley says sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aware of the community concerns and has promised to keep â&#x20AC;&#x153;a watching briefâ&#x20AC;? on the incidence of the disease. These concerns are growing and becoming more widespread by the minute as the fallout from the recent discussion of Q-fever continues, with sufferers across Australia connecting to form support groups. Many have already said a national lobby group needs to be formed to get the government to act by providing awareness programs, testing for those most at risk and also providing free vaccinations. Parkes MP Mark Coulton, himself a former farmer, says the concerns have been heard loud and clear in Canberra. He understands thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a potential flood of new information on the disease about to inundate policy makers. Anyone with relevant information or whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to discuss their experience with Q-fever is urged to contact associate professor Tony Lower on (02) 6752 8210. Macquarie 2100 is looking at running a seminar in the next few months which will include hearing from sufferers, Lifeline, medical professionals and other health practitioners. Anyone who would like to be put on the M2100 contact list can send an email to m2100@bigpond.com.

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MY husband Tony was a former shearer who now runs his own sheep and cattle pregnancy scanning business. As part of his job he is exposed to the elements and dust is one of the main breeding grounds for Q-fever. Working in dusty sheep yard on a daily basis, Tony often comes home covered in dust saying “If only people watered their yards...” He was diagnosed with Q-fever in 2009. Some of the on-going side-effects he suffers are general aches and pains, fatigue, night sweats, insomnia and heart palpations, none of which we linked to Q-fever until we watched the ABC Landline program. After watching that program and attending the Macquarie 2100 meeting, everything fell into place; before that I must admit I have been known to say to Tony “oh, what’s wrong with you now?” After talking to other suffers of Q-fever I came home feeling quite guilty. This is a life-consuming disease for some people who suffer in silence because of this attitude. It’s the general lack of information that even leaves sufferers out in the dark. I find it amazing that in this day and age that as a notifiable disease so little is known about it in the community. We were very lucky Tony’s Q-fever was picked up straight away by our local GP. But I recently called in to see a friend who

` This is a life-consuming disease for some people who suffer in silence because of this attitude. It’s the general lack of information that even leaves sufferers out in the dark.

told me her son had Q-fever last year. At the time he was working for a stock and station agent. After my many questions she told me her son didn’t have a blood test, but the doctors told him it sounded like Qfever. This young man is only 20, walking around not knowing. Not one doctor in the past seven years has linked Tony’s other complaints to Q-fever – I guess at least four or five doctors. For me it was incredibly valuable to meet others at the forum who have been touched by this disease. It helped to put together all the pieces of Tony’s health issues and possibly find the main source. I cannot tell you how bad I felt as I often fobbed his ailments off. I only wish he was there to feel as inspired as I do. I think he’s still a little scepti-

cal about all the information I’ve given him, not wanting to draw too much attention to himself. I believe people don’t talk about it because it is really underrated in the medical and general community. We were never told of any long term effect. Tony was just told he needs to let it run its course, nothing more. He just got on with life despite being so sick. The Facebook page is amazing. I both love and hate reading what people are going through. Let’s hope it grows and helps many more people who have suffered in silence. They are made to feel like they are habitual complainers – by their family and by the community, and we need to get everyone in the community educated on this ASAP. We sometime go to work with Tony as a family. I now have concerns that we are putting our children at risk. Most of the time the stockyards are not watered and there’s dust everywhere.

Scott Richardson: MY story starts in January 1994, when I started woolclassing at Enngonia. The job lasted three weeks – just long enough to contract Q-fever. It was my first contact with stock and shearing sheds since coming back from a six month working holiday in the US. In this particular shed, sheep ticks u

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u were prevalent and when the sheep were shorn the ticks were cut in half with their blood and bodies evident on the fleece and on the board, and when the fleeces were picked up and thrown, the blood particles became airborne. It wasn’t until the second last day that I realised I was crook, although I wasn’t sure what with. I was in Sydney a few days later and collapsed in the shower. I dropped like a sack of potatoes. When I got back to Dubbo, my mum took me straight to the hospital and I was admitted. I had sweats that soaked my pyjamas and bedding; fatigue that bordered on hallucination; body aches – particularly in the joints; terrible coloured and smelly urine and yellow eyes. As it was the early days, and Q-fever wasn’t well understood, the doctors just thought I had a bad bout of glandular fever – until they did the blood tests. I went back to work two weeks later but landed back in hospital after six weeks. This time, my body completely rebelled. I slept 18 hours a day, just drifting in and out, delirious. When Q-fever knocks on your door, it drops you quickly and harshly. After tests in Sydney, the ` doctor said I was in the 1 per cent that has a “significant” When Q-fever dose of Q-fever, and that it knocks on would affect me for 10-20 your door, years. It has certainly taken its it drops you toll – loss of income, having to give up my passion for quickly and sheep and wool, and realising harshly. I couldn’t work regularly for someone else. So I became a self-employed harvester and farming contractor. In 2000, I went downhill while I was doing a farming job at Nevertire. One day I was barely able to drag myself out of bed and that night I was lifeless, but the caretaker of the farm I was working on was a professor who had done humanitarian work in malaria-prone countries. He saw how crook I was. He wrapped me in plastic irrigation sheeting, sat me on a kitchen chair with an electric frying pan full of water under me and basically “cooked” me for about 40 minutes. By the end of it, all I could do was collapse in bed, but it was the best sleep ever. I woke up feeling remarkably well – it was a remedy that seemed to work for me. Fast forward to 2015 and I’m now 47, with a wife and three kids. I still get affected by bad symptoms but only if I’m silly – like working long hours, not eating well or not getting enough sleep. I still get “fatigue face” where you can touch one side of my face but not the other. My heart still palpitates when it wants to and my joints get sore. One of the main drawbacks is that I’m not energised to play for a long time with my children. My energy levels are just at a basic level all the time. Even now, extra activity is taxing but with a “cup half full” attitude and good family support, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. It might be a small light, but it’s there. ■

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ON THIN ICE That Australia is in the grips of an ice epidemic isn’t news but closer to home the Central West has again been the target of city media for what is clearly a national issue. Towns like Wellington are fighting back by pulling together and through initiatives between police and the community – and it’s working. LISA MINNER talks to some of those at the coal-face of the fight, and to a recovering ice addict whose insights might surprise even the most hardened cynic. CE or crystal methamphetamine and the grip with which it has regional communities held ransom, is rarely out of the news these days. Last week, the ABC’s 7.30 program – spurred on by the release of the latest National Ice Taskforce’s interim report – featured a couple removed from a train in Wellington allegedly with the substance and paraphernalia in their possession. The program again raised the spectre of the use of the drug in regional communities, and social media went into overdrive, with many people critical of the ABC’s coverage as unfair. Most people are aware that ice is a national problem, and not just an issue peculiar to Central Western NSW, but the labels of “Little Antarctica” and “the South Pole” have stuck to Wellington and continue to draw the attention of the national media. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 2014, it’s estimated that as many as 245 million people worldwide use illegal drugs each year and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare statistics show that around 42 per cent of people in Australia admit to trying illegal drugs at some point in their lives, with around 15 per cent of the population admitted

using illicit drugs in the past year; 2.1 per cent said they had used ice, speed and prescription amphetamines in the past year. Ice is now the most popular amphetamine amongst drug users, with the use of “speed” in decline. However cannabis and “ecstasy” are still more popular at 10.2 per cent and 2.5 per cent, respectively. While the drug is certainly taking its toll on certain townships, communities are keen for change and that’s not just the police talking. Wellington’s Senior Sergeant Simon Madgwick and Wellington’s ACLO (Aboriginal Community Liaison Officer) Zeke Shaw are not put off by the negative publicity associated with ice and their town. They admit there’s a problem and in collaboration with people from all over Wellington, the pair has begun to tackle the problem head on. Madgwick says they’ve had to acknowledge there’s a problem in the first place. “There’s an issue with ice everywhere but the difference is that in Wellington we are doing something about it. We have the Dob in a Dealer program where we are encouraging members of the public to call the po-

lice and dob in people who are supplying ice and we are trying to encourage a cultural shift away from the acceptance of drugs in the community to one where they community takes a stand and helps police.” Wellington ACLO Zeke Shaw has been instrumental in breaking down the barriers between police and communtiy and in facilitating everyone moving forward as a group. “He’s helped by letting people know our police need help and that’s been massive, monumental, to us,” Madgwick says. Shaw says the starting point for him was establishing rapport with all levels of the community. He’s also behind the Gungie Origin Program, a community collaboration designed to build up the town, which has been backed by sporting identity Anthony Mundine, who is a partner with the program along with the Manly Sea Eagles, Woolworths, OfficeWorks and other government and nongovernment agencies. “Ice does not discriminate and it doesn’t matter if you’re Aboriginal and it doesn’t matter if you’re non-aboriginal; if you take ice into your body it will take a hold and it will destroy you,” Shaw warns.

He says he gets so disheartened that Wellington, from which he is a traditional owner and family member, has been labelled Little Antartica. “Those negative preconceptions really are burned within my spirit, hence the reason I want to do something with the community, not for the community. “The beautiful thing about “2820 country” is we have identified and acknowledged our problems, “When you get to work with people like Simon Madgwick and Orana Local Area Command Inspector Scott Tanner, it certainly makes my job easier because those guys share that passion; it’s gone beyond talking the talk here.” And the approach appears to be working. Just last Friday evening evidence that the Gungie Dob in a Dealer program is getting through to the community came when police received a call advising them of a female dealer in the area. Her vehicle was pulled over and she was allegedly charged with supplying and distributing ice. The woman appeared before Dubbo Local Court the following day, where she was granted bail. It’s a positive result forward for a community trying to create their own solution from the ground up.

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Dylan Fieldsend, son Justice and good friend and sponsor Adam Wiseman. PHOTO: LISA MINNER

Ice block: A personal account Dylan Feildsend, age 28, has been addicted to ice for 12 years. Now in recovery, he has been clean a year.

WHEN I was using I never tried to influence other people to do it; I kept that stuff to myself. While I don’t condone drugs or alcohol, the people that use them are probably suffering in some way. I don’t judge anyone for what they do because I’ve been there and done it and made mistakes like everyone and I try to have a positive impact on people now. I try not to spread my negativity on others. The turning point for me was when I found out my girlfriend was pregnant and that was the thing that changed me from how I use to be. The rehab had an effect but once we found out about the pregnancy I knew I had to step up to the plate – I couldn’t have my son seeing me how I was. When I was in the middle of my addiction my only motivation was to get on the drugs – that was it; it wasn’t about trying to get a job or anything like that. Nothing else mattered. The only numbers I would have had in my phone were people I knew who I could get on it with or where I could get it. My whole lifestyle revolved around that addiction, I didn’t have time for anything else. I did learn something good at rehab though – they told me that if I put in half the effort I put into getting on or my addiction, life would be so much easier. And I did put in a lot of effort for my addiction, you’ll go to any lengths for it. It’s pretty sad. I was about 13 when I started on can-

nabis and then as soon as I got introduced to the ice I didn’t even drink alcohol, it was just all about ice. I was about 16 then. My mum kicked me out when I was on it – she didn’t want me there. She tried to help me and she tried to reach out but I wouldn’t accept it. I just wasn’t ready for it. There were a lot of other people who were supportive but I just wasn’t ready to change. I was just blessed that my girlfriend was there – we’d had a pretty rough trot. I just don’t know what it would have been like if he (Justice, 10 weeks old) wasn’t here. I feel pretty blessed at the moment. I’ve had probably two relapses in the year I have been off ice. I did it once and I realised pretty quickly I’d better stop again and I got back on the wagon and kept going. I had a lot of people who reminded me how well I’d been doing and why now? But I’m glad I got it out of my system because if I’d kept on I might have been stopped from seeing my son and I don’t know how I could live with that. I probably would have gone back to the heavier drugs again. I get angry when I see social media posts that dismiss us as junkies but there are so many people in the community that are doing it that you wouldn’t even know about. There’s so much judgement on those social media crime pages. If a guy walks down the street and he’s not wearing a suit or something, you know he must be from the housing commission area and on ice or he’s a blackfella walking down the road looking suss. Ice doesnt discriminate; there are people from all walks of life doing it. You notice the addicts from the lower

socio-economic backgrounds because often they commit crime to get money to buy it. Someone else who is cashed up slips under the radar and doesn’t get noticed. The media always focusses on the ones who can’t defend themselves or who are uneducated. This is my mate Adam Wiseman, he’s my sponsor; he helps me if I am having a bit of a bad time or want to go back to the drugs. I always turn to Adam and he’ll come and see me. That’s what people who are trying to give up need, someone to reach out and talk to. It’s hard but if you can just talk to someone you trust, it really helps. It’s not so much that ice is addictive, it’s more of a craving – like a cigarette, but different. You can stay off ice for three days and be okay and you don’t notice it, but with an opiate drug you will actually feel sickness. With ice it’s

` You notice the addicts from the lower socio-economic backgrounds because often they commit crime to get money to buy it. Someone else who is cashed up slips under the radar and doesn’t get noticed. – Dylan Fieldsend

really just your head it messes with, it’s not a physical withdrawal. I know people who have gone to jail and they’ve been addicted to the ice and they’ll get on the methadone. It’s an opiate, it’s meant to stop you from using opiates. That makes me upset because then they get trapped on that and it’s probably the worst drug. I can’t stand the methadone. I don’t know how doctors can give people that. They try to force it on you – I have had parole and because of the ice they’ve said ‘’Why don’t you get on the methadone program?” I said “No,I don’t need that.” I tried it before and my mum got very upset with it and that made me upset and I got off it. With ice you’ve got people up and around at all hours of the night, but with heroin addicts they’re stoned in the daytime and then they’ll sleep at night. But with ice they are always around (even though) a lot of them are too paranoid to even come outside. The ones who get angry already had violent streaks in them before; it’s not really the ice that’s doing it it’s them. Some people sell a couple of small deals so they can get a bit of extra money to buy more for themselves later on. Some people will go out and steal from the shops or from other people. It’s hard for a lot of people. I’m just lucky I could get a job, there’s not a lot of jobs out here. I put my resume in to so many places, day after day, and it just didn’t work but then I got lucky. I have a bit of a hatred toward police; they’ve targeted me from a young age and even today if I found myself in a situation I wouldn’t call them – u

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u I don’t feel like they’d help me. There are a lot of reasons people take drugs. Some people do it just because their friends are doing it and it’s fun, that’s how I got into it. But then you get stuck in it and people don’t realise what it’s like to not be able to escape. That’s all I knew for a long time, that’s how I got by to survive for a long time. I’d rort people; I’d sell stuff and make enough just to get back on (ice) and I wouldn’t really eat – I wouldn’t eat for days. I would sometimes stay up for five days without even drinking water. I’d run my body into the ground. People would say you need to go to sleep and I’d refuse to and I wouldn’t even look in the mirror because I knew what I’d see. You feel like your body is going to shut down after a while. I’d have the ice and I’d think it was going to be fun and then I’d have it and instantly feel like crap. I wouldn’t talk to anyone; I’d just be there in my own silence. If people tried to talk to me, I’d get pretty angry. I’ve had some violence issues in the past. I’m taking some medication to help with that and I am finding new ways to cope. That was the problem; if things were getting a bit hard, I would turn back to what I knew. Like, “it’s too hard now so I am just going to get some ice” but really it made me worse because I’d think a lot more when I was on it. What would help to tackle the ice issue? There is a group of people here at the Neighbourhood Centre headed by Nguumambiny Indigenous Corporation CEO manager Lynn Field and assisted by Chanelle O’Brien, who are really pushing for a rehab centre to be opened in Dubbo. That would really help. Maybe something small to begin with and a place where people will feel they can go to for help, even if it’s just to attend the meetings. Have its doors open to anyone who wants help – because you want to go there not because the courts are pushing you in there. Going because you want to go will get better results, better success rates. The problem is rehab centres are too far away from here – I went to one in Kempsey. A lot of people don’t want to go away from their community or their family and if there was a centre close by it would be easier for them to get off the drugs because they’d have support close by. And you’re going to be more committed to it if you go because you want to. If I can change my life and get off ice anyone can. It’s been a hard journey because that’s all I knew – drugs. But now I’ve made a big change in my life; I have been lucky to have always had a lot of support – you need that, support not judgement. Every day is still hard but it’s so much better. Go down to the Neighbourhood Centre in Dubbo and speak to someone there and they will point you in the right direction. Do be scared and don’t feel ashamed, addiction does not define someone.

` It doesn’t matter if you’re Aboriginal and it doesn’t matter if you’re non-aboriginal; if you take ice into your body it will take a hold and it will destroy you. – Wellington Aboriginal Community Liaison Officer Zeke Shaw

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` We are trying to encourage a cultural shift away from the acceptance of drugs in the community to one where they community takes a stand and helps police. – Senior Sergeant Simon Madgwick

ACLO Zeke Shaw and Senior Sergeant Simon Madgwick at Wellington Police Station this week. PHOTO: LISA MINNER

The psychology of addiction DR BRAD McKAY (MBS FRACGP), from East Sydney Doctors in Darlinghurst is familiar with the long and short term effects of ice, and daily deals with patients who have had their lives turned upside-down by addiction. He says it’s no surprise that ice is so popular given its ability to “ping” all the pleasure centres in the brain, creating almost instant addiction. “As far as ice goes, it’s one of the most effective agents you can use that will stimulate the areas of your brain that like rewards. So it’s one of the best things ever to hit that area of the brain and get you addicted pretty quickly,” McKay tells Weekender. After only a few days of taking the drug, users can be addicted forever, he says. “People taking it are chasing things and up for days; they often start smoking it or snorting it and then they’ll get a bit of a buzz and a high from it and then the next time they snort or smoke the same amount – they won’t get the same high and they’ll be chasing that after the first few times they used it. “You just end up having escalated usage and people get to a stage where they are smoking and snorting as much as they can and they are still not getting the same high they once had so they change to injecting and then it continues from there and once people start injecting, it’s a lot harder to get off it.” He says it’s common for people who are on ice to think they’re “fantastic” and many will be high while at work. “One of my patients was a builder and he was going to work high and would put up a brick wall and think he’d done an amazing job only to find the next day it was crap. So it certainly increases people’s self-confidence but decreases their ability to function,” McKay explains. “People will be working 9 to 5 jobs and are smoking in the morning, going

Dr Brad McKay

home for lunch, having another smoke of ice and then going back and working all afternoon, so it can be an ongoing problem and they can be thinking they’re functioning but they’re not. After a while everything starts unraveling.” McKay says in his experience all people – from those in suits right across the spectrum to homeless people – are equally susceptible to the lure of ice. It doesn’t discriminate but some people can manage a bit better, he says. “They might have a little bit over time, maybe a bit on the weekends, a bender for three or four days and then nothing for the next month, but it’s the minority of people who are able to do that.” Over a long period of using, he says, when the drug is stopped people feel “disgusting” and can actually get a long term depression, as well as psychosis and a permanently altered way of thinking.

Asked about strategies on rehabilitation, Mckay says the first step is to accept there’s a problem. “Don’t make excuses and say oh I’m just having it on weekends; no you’re having it every weekend! I think there’s a lot of power in talking to family and friends and being open and honest about where you’re at. See a GP as a first option and get involved in drug and alcohol services,” he advises. “Some people think they can stop it themselves and might go two weeks and be feeling terrible and then start feeling okay but then we also look at relapse prevention. Particularly things like environments where friends or housemates are still using it because the temptation will still be there. “It can be really difficult for a lot of people to change their social environment because that’s where their druggie friends are and they’re feeling that’s where they’re wanted, so it can be a horrible time for them.” Mackay says the government has put a lot of money into drug awareness campaigns that teach people ice is bad but then keep pulling funding for drug and alcohol counselling. “So what are they doing? They’re making people aware but not putting the finances into helping people; it’s a tricky issue and we have had lots of problems trying to find places to get people counselling or to have proper detox. It’s a major problem and I don’t think we are having the leadership we need to find a solution to a deep problem.” Ed’s Note: During a visit to Dubbo this week, Assistant Minister for Health and Mental Health Pru Goward announced a $4million fund to help non-government organisations identify and establish programs and strategies to assist with the treatment of ice addiction. Tenders for the fund will open in September. See coverage in today’s Dubbo Weekender Seven Days news review

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Tony Webber

Tony Webber is a Dubbo resident and former political staffer.

Political money trail reveals who’s not in bed with who HERE’S a comedy skit about a hubby who comes home unexpectedly to find his wife in bed with his friend. It’s a running gag, centred on the amorous couple’s ability to convince the gullible hubby that it’s not what it seems. “We’re planning your surprise birthday,” explains his libidinous mate. “How considerate – and it’s not for eight months!” replies our unsuspecting cuckolded spouse. Political donations are a similar exercise in explaining that a snake is not actually a snake, despite its uncanny resemblance to a reptile of that description. For reasons of legal sensitivity, I am not going to imply that political donations have influenced government, nor has donor generosity been prompted by a government decision the layman might consider advantageous to that donor. Today we will talk merely about coincidences – like popping back home unexpectedly just as your wife and friend are planning your surprise party while naked in bed. On Monday the SMH raised the coincidental donation by Clubs NSW to an interstate group raising money for a certain federal Minister shortly after that Minister generated some legislation that could be viewed as favourable to people who own a lot of pokies: say, someone like Clubs NSW. This blurred line was the subject of a lengthy legal spat between the Treasurer and certain media outlets, who implied that donors to a fund-raising group received special access to the Treasurer. The courts found against the media outlets in relation to newsagent posters spruiking the story, and Twitter messages sent with similar summarised content. But as to the substance of the articles themselves, the court said no standards had been breached with regard to the Treasurer’s reputation. Efforts to reform the system at federal level have stagnated, but by Tuesday the NSW Premier’s push to improve the situation was the subject of front page coverage, and on Wednesday the federal Opposition Leader was also calling for

The money rains down on FIFA President Sepp Blatter earlier this month. PHOTO: REUTERS/ARND WIEGMANN

change. While a media storm has surrounded the gluttony towards travel entitlements on the part of Bronwyn Bishop, our comparatively lax approach to donations to political parties, often via “associated entities” which obscure the money’s origins, is a greater concern. It is when we look beyond the world of politics that the farce is exposed. Were I to face a court charged with some offence, and seize the opportunity to lob a slippery $20K on the table to assist the court system with any procedural costs it may incur in the future, it might be considered that far from being a disinterested do-gooder, I am seeking to exert influence upon the institution. Doubtless my kind offer would be rejected and my charge sheet extended accordingly to include some reference to bribery. Look at the FIFA row: allegations that

inducements were provided to encourage officials to cast their votes in a particular direction were greeted as if the biblical whore of Babylon had returned to bring undone all the accumulated good of mankind. And this was sport: specifically, kicking a ball at a target while opposing players try to impede you. In the grand scheme of things sport matters like a sock draw matters.

` Where abusing travel entitlements is an affront to our system, the practice of paying money to political parties remains a thorn in its heart...

What we are talking about is paying money into the very highest levels of government. Even if the actual benefit is zero, as a practice carrying the clear potential to foster, if not corrupt behaviour, then certainly influence peddling, it is hard to see political donations as anything other than a proverbial rotten apple. And it’s not small bickies: media recently reported allegations that Australian Mafiosi had used party donations to gain access to, and coincidentally benefit from, high-ranking federally-elected government officials. We have tinkered at the fringe of donations, excluding property developers in some instances for example, and sought to crack down on lobbyists’ influence. But where abusing travel entitlements is an affront to our system, the practice of paying money to political parties remains a thorn in its heart. ■

Texting while you walk? It changes your pace, and makes you look silly

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LONDON: People walk slower while texting on their mobile phones to try to avoid accidents, according to new British research. And they often make large, exaggerated movements to negotiate crowds and compensate for their diminished vision. One of the researchers, Dr Conrad Earnest, had the idea for the study after becoming irritated at the “drunken weaving” of pedestrians on their mobile

phones in Bath city centre. With the help of two University of Bath undergraduates, he took 30 people and made them complete three different walking tasks around an obstacle course. The participants – aged between 18 and 50 – did the course while walking normally, texting and walking, and texting and walking while being cognitively distracted with a simple maths test. The researchers examined

the walkers’ gait using a 3D motion analysis system and modelled each task to assess the differences between trails. The authors found that participants took significantly longer to complete the course while texting and being cognitively distracted compared with just walking. Texting while being cognitively distracted also increased obstacle clearance, step frequency and decreased someone’s abil-

ity to walk in a straight line. The authors of the study suggest participants – when faced with cognitive challenges – decrease their walking speed to avoid accidents. Dr Earnest said their main findings were that people slowed their walking speed, took more steps in their approach to common obstacles, and increased the height of their step to go up steps and over curbs. AAP

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The real test of Ashes commentary THE third test of the Ashes is underway, with both teams showing remarkable talent, while equally both crumbling at the crease. Columnists are scrambling to predict how the archrivals will perform in this third match, currently locked at one all. However viewers of the Chanel Nine coverage probably have their own scorecard happening: how often does Warnie refer to his own prowess? How many times will Tubbs be chuckled at for a silly remark? And how many times can a commentator say “well, that’s a missed opportunity”? If only they were still playing, they could show us all how it’s done.

The plusses of running US magazine Womens’ Running won the admiration of many runners and made a usually predictable and boring cover the topic of an interesting conversation. In full running mode, model Erika Schenk marks the first plus size model to grace the cover. Editor in Chief Jessica Sebor told The Today Show it was important that people realise that “runners come in all shapes and sizes” and body image experts hope the cover will encourage more people to become active. “There is a stereotype that all

runners are skinny, and that’s just not the case,” Sebor said.

Birkin not jerkin’ ONE of the most coveted handbags in fashion history may be disappearing from the shelves if one woman gets her way. Jane Birkin, the namesake and inspiration for the luxury Hermes bag, recently requested that her name be removed from the iconic bag, for which there’s a six-year waiting list. The British actress and singer stated that she had recently become aware of the cruel way crocodiles were treated prior to their deaths, and wanted the company to change its practices.

Cosby and the empty seat THE New York Magazine’s website crashed this week when it published its cover features – interviews with the 35 women alleging abuse at the hands of famous – now infamous – comedian Bill Cosby. The cover is incredibly striking, a collage of photographs of each of the victims, sitting in their chairs, meeting the gaze of the viewer. The final chair is empty, representing the victims yet to come forward. The online traffic and interest in this story was so significant that other websites running the image with links to the article also crashed. This magazine cover is a timely representation of a cultural change towards victims of sexual abuse – to listen, rather than judge.

Attention grabbing: New York Magazine’s latest cover would rank as one of the best of the year. It features a collage of 35 women who allege abuse by US actor-comedian Bill Cosby.

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WHAT I DO KNOW.

Karen Barlow: Care in the air Flying around the outback saving lives with arguably Australia’s most iconic organisation sounds like a glamorous way to spend your working day. But for Dubbo-based Royal Flying Doctor Service Senior Flight Nurse Karen Barlow, it’s about delivering a vital medical service and the focus is the patient. Always. I’ve been at the RFDS now for 16 years – six as Senior Flight Nurse. After I left school, my friends were all off to uni and having a great time and I thought, hmmm, I’d like to get in on that act! So I went off to do nursing at uni in Armidale. I’m a Forbes girl originally, and I wasn’t interested in moving anywhere near Sydney, so when I finished uni, I came to Dubbo and I’ve been nursing here ever since. A friend saw the advertisement for the RFDS establishing a base here and thought of me. It was fate really, because I’d been at the airport a few days before and I’d seen the air-ambulance come in – I thought, what a great job. I was with my brother who was working for Qantas at the time and he said, “Well, apply then.” I did. And here I am. It sounds very glamorous – the RFDS a very iconic organisation, and people always go, “Wow – you work for the RFDS” – but it’s not very glamorous at all! In the summer it’s hot and it’s rough and there’s insects everywhere (laughs) and in the winter it’s cold and it’s not particularly pleasant! We’re going out at two and three o’clock in the morning and there’s no colder place than an outback airport in the middle of the night in winter. It’s not the most glamorous job. And at the end of the day, we’re delivering a medical service – and that’s the focus. It has to be. We are taking care of people’s health and medical needs, whatever they may be. That’s why I’m still here after 16 years – because every day is different and every night is different. They’re long hours – 12 hour shifts – and we don’t just down tools at the end of that shift if we need to get a patient to where they need to be. There’s no clocking off at 6 o’clock – and you need to have a very understanding husband and family to do this job. You don’t get home for Christmas. You’re not home for birthdays, for Easter. You can arrange to have dinners with friends and you’ll still be at the hospital or on the tarmac in Sydney when you’re supposed to be sitting down to your first red! But you don’t think about that – because you have this person in front of you, in your care, who is having probably a really

bad day. The point is that you do eventually get to go home to your family, but most of the time, you’re leaving that person in a hospital bed a long way from home. People often say it must be hard to have to work Christmas, but at the end of the day, I just remember that I might be stuck in Cobar, for instance, but I’m with a patient who’s having a really rough time and isn’t likely to get back to their family any time soon. That puts it into perspective. We do a lot of maternity care, because you can’t have a baby west of Dubbo any more. For 12 years I had the record for not having delivered a baby in the plane. That all came to a screaming halt in Walgett one morning when the woman’s water broke as we were taxiing out – and she delivered shortly after. But we were still on the ground, so I reckoned that didn’t count! But overall, I’ve probably delivered three or four babies. None of the babies have been named Karen, although I’ve suggested it a few times (laughs). With my nursing role, unlike in a mainstream hospital, there’s no back-up – this is a very autonomous job. Unless it’s a retrieval, we’re on the plane on our own. You have to think on your

feet. Normally before you pick the patient up, you’ll do a very thorough triage – you’ll do a pre-flight, you’ll ring the hospital and speak to the registered nurse or doctor who’s looking after that patient – so you usually have a pretty good idea of what you’re going to be flying into. But there are times when you’re already in the air and you’ll be re-tasked. So you might be on your way to Cobar and someone will have an accident at Brewarrina. You can be in mentally prepared for the job you think you’re going to, then you have to switch your mind to something else. It means you have to be organised and you have to remain calm. It doesn’t matter what’s going on inside your head, that patient is looking at you as a lifeline. You just have to do what you have to do and what you can do. One of the toughest calls I ever had to make was when we were called to a remote community for a burns patient. The story I got was completely different to what faced me when I got there. I took one look at him and knew he needed more than a nurse – he was in a pretty bad way. There was another time with a lady who needed retrieval and had to go very quickly so we had

to leave her daughter behind. That was tough. Leaving distressed people behind is always difficult. It’s also hard when you have someone in the plane beside you who has been diagnosed with some horrendous condition – like an aggressive brain tumour or something similar – and you’re sitting there with them knowing they have the fight of their life on their hands. We’re there for medical care, but people also need reassurance. Some people have never been in hospital before. Some people have never even been in a plane before. Not only are they lying there with tubes coming out of them, they’ve had bloods done, they’ve been stuck with needles and they’re going through a totally foreign experience, but then they’re thrown on an aeroplane and it can be very confronting. It doesn’t matter whether they’re 6’4” burly farmers or little ten year old children – it’s scary and they’re frightened. The best part of what we do is knowing you’ve done a good job. Knowing you’ve got someone safely from A to B and you’ve done everything you can for them and they’re in a bit better nick than when you first picked them up. Delivering babies is probably the best – it still makes me teary to think of it. It’s such an emotional time. Once that baby’s out and it’s there and everything’s fine, and you just look at their faces and at the mum... you just think, yeah, I did a good thing. But then you’ll have a mum on board with a sick baby and you know there’s not going to be a good outcome, and that’s awful. Really hard. If something goes really bad – like a death on board – we debrief among ourselves. We have a great team here, and we help each other. We have a great team here – great doctors and nurses and pilots. We have M&M (Mortality and Morbidity) meetings so that we can discuss anything that’s cropped up that’s interesting or out of the ordinary. It’s a weird thing, isn’t it? That someone’s worst day can be an educational process for us. There’s also counselling available for us. The first time I had a death on the aircraft is something that stays with me. But I’m lucky in that with all those years as a casualty nurse, I can compartmentalise things – I don’t dwell on that side of the job. As long as I can walk out that door knowing that I did the best I could, I’m happy with that. Nothing shocks me anymore. It still shocks me what people will do to each other, but after all those years in the Emergency Department... I’d never say I’ve seen it all, but I’ve seen the best and I’ve seen the worst and nothing really fazes me now. I just do the best job I can. I’ll keep doing this until something else comes along – but it’ll have to be something pretty special. – As told to Jen Cowley

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Brodie James and Valerie Tereshchenko: The world at their feet Valerie Tereshchenko is a coryphées, and Brodie James, a corps de ballet, with the country’s premiere dance company, the Australian Ballet. She immigrated to Australia from Kiev, aged six and he’s from Perth. Both are elite dancers, representing the nation’s very best. Dubbo Weekender caught them between rehearsals before they take to the stage together in Dubbo next week. As told to Yvette Aubusson-Foley. WHEN Brodie James and Valerie Tereshchenko step into the spotlight on the stage in Dubbo next week, audiences will be treated to the best of the Australian Ballet’s, Dancer’s Company. Performing a triple bill of classical ballet excerpts more than a century older than the Aussie and Ukranian, the pair has the contemporary commitment and perfectionism needed to achieve elite dancer status.

Brodie James HOW could Val not choose dance? She was born in the Ukraine and dance and the arts are very strong in the European culture. While I’m not sure if she necessarily started ballet when living in Ukraine, there is potential for Valerie’s destiny with dance to blossom from experiencing European culture at a young age. From our experience with The Dancers Company I have learned that Valerie has a very detailed approach to her work. There is no movement of hand or head that is unintentional. Everything she does has its purpose within the repertoire. One of fantastic things that makes working with Valerie a joy is that she’s willing to give anything a go; trying multiple ways of executing a step to find out what works best for us both. On the road I always notice Val’s nose in a book. It doesn’t matter where we are, whether it be on an airplane or even walking down the street, Valerie just loves her literature. This along with the occasional glass of wine would definitely be Valerie’s preferred way to relax. In actual fact, The Dancers Company will be the very first time we make a debut dancing together which will make it all the more exciting. I think Valerie’s coordination is one of her biggest strengths. With coordination anything can be done well. This particularly comes in handy with all the partnering. I’ve heard through the grapevine that Valerie has a secret talent for pool although I’m yet to witness this. (Choosing Valerie’s favourite role to dance) is hard. I’m leaning towards Odile in Act III of Swan Lake, as it’s the pinnacle of many dancers’ dreams. I think Valerie may enjoy the complexity and layering of her character. I can imagine it would be a very empowering role to dance.

Valerie Tereshchenko I THINK most dancers can say that dance chose them but dance is such a difficult undertaking that at some point you have to choose it right back. Brodie is extremely talented and has so many natural qualities attributed to a male dancer; how can those long limbs not be made for dance? However, he is also incredibly tenacious and challenge-driven so he probably finds ballet the perfect activity that stimulates and challenges him both physically and intellectually. I am so appreciative that Brodie’s approach to rehearsals is similar to mine. We are both extremely persistent and will try things over and over again until we are happy with them. Brodie also takes time to think about the characterisation and the emotion of each of his roles, which makes it easier for me too. Ballet after all is an art form, and when two people are both emotionally connected and telling the same story

on stage, that’s what makes for a great performance. Although we have both travelled with the company a lot, it’s always been with the whole company and never over such a long period of time. I don’t know much about Brodie’s touring habits but I guess I am soon to find out! Brodie is an energiser bunny. He always has energy – seriously, always. Apparently he is the ultimate morning person too. This tour is actually our first time dancing together. I remember being very impressed with how confident and strong Brodie was as a partner, especially since he hadn’t done a grand pas de deux since school. His confidence made me feel comfortable. Brodie is an extremely hard and smart worker. He adapts quickly, is very resilient and is very open to listening/adapting to his partner (which is great for me) Also, those long, long legs!

Brodie is a force of positive energy, so he probably excels at everything he does. I know that on top of all the classes, rehearsals and performances we do with The Australian Ballet he also finds time to go to the gym every day, study for his online university course and also read the latest fiction novel. I think the part Brodie would enjoy the most is the role of Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake. It has all the technical difficulty of a classical ballet but it also has emotion, persona and a story to be portrayed. Also he is a Prince! l The Australian Ballet, The Dancers Company 2015 will perform a l Classical Triple Bill: Swan Lake Act III (the dramatic ball-room scene which features the famous Black Swan Pas de deux); Paquita, (a beautiful tutu spectacular) and Rimbombo (which showcases the athleticism of the male dancers in the company). l August 7-8, Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre

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Human weakness at the heart of Goodes controversy Comment by y STEPHEN LAWRENCE Stephen Lawrence is a Barrister and Rugby League fan.

HE current barbecue stopper is without a doubt the Adam Goodes booing controversy. On one side of the shouting match accusations of blatant racism are made against the booing crowds. On the other, Goodes has been derided as a deliberate antagoniser, a bad sport and someone who misused his role as Australian of the Year to denigrate Australia. A man who brings booing upon himself. It all goes back, in my mind at least, to that striking image of Goodes in 2013, visibly outraged, staring down a member of the crowd, arm outstretched and pointed in accusation, enlisting the power of officialdom to have the perpetrator bundled from the stadium. An Aboriginal man, in the most public of places, taking control, asserting racism, calling out the alleged racist, exerting power. An image confronting no doubt in different ways to different people. An interaction between two individuals, strangers, singularly mismatched in size, age and power, resonating with deeply held feelings in the national DNA about race. As a lawyer I am often struck by how highly publicised criminal trials become prisms through which people seek to confirm and validate their existing understanding of social issues. A domestic violence case must involve a subjugated beaten woman, (or perhaps a scheming, lying, scorned woman). A police assault case must involve a bully boy cop, (or perhaps a dedicated servant of the people forced to act in their own defence). Yet the truth is often grey and the person and situation sitting somewhere on the spectrum of a social dynamic, not conforming to the caricature. Confounding many attempts to tell a broader coherent story through a criminal case. So it is perhaps with the Adam Goodes saga. Some of us almost necessarily see the booing crowds as the racist mob, because we see in the stadium our own picture of the nation in microcosm. Goodes then, we see as a hero of an oppressed people, because we see his ancestors, their oppressors and all of the ways that history continues to control the present. The young girl then is just another white child who has absorbed the language of racism within the dominant group.

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Others however see the young girl as the innocent child victim of a rich powerful sportsman, “ape” not necessarily as a term of racial abuse, the booing perhaps a legitimate response to Goode’s chip-onthe-shoulder carry on, the spear dance as a blatant act of provocation with distinct overtones of racial animosity. The other 71 Indigenous AFL players as proof that Australia really does offer a level playing field. So, I suppose I cannot avoid my own attempt at analysis of what is actually in truth going on here. Are the booers racist? On the yes side of this argument I cannot help but stop first at the racism that I believe exists within all humans on some level. The fear of otherness and a sense of tribalism is fundamental to the human condition and can bubble to the surface in the right circumstances. The person who hasn’t feared the other in an irrational way is the person who perhaps lacks some self-awareness or honesty. We shouldn’t be shocked at the very idea of racism in modern Australia. We better ourselves by owning our human weaknesses not deny-

` The fear of otherness and a sense of tribalism is fundamental to the human condition and can bubble to the surface in the right circumstances.

ing their very existence. In Australia we must also however appreciate the real history of conflict over land, violent dispossession, child theft, notions of racial superiority (which until very recently influenced government policy) and other systemic discriminations against Aboriginal people. We must confront the continued marginalisation of and racism against Aboriginal people. It is real. During my recent experience contesting the seat of Dubbo as the Country Labor candidate I had the privilege of meeting thousands of people across the region and discussing what was concerning them. I met my fair share of racists who were very happy to tell me about it. I bet they would boo Adam Goodes; I bet they think he’s an uppity blackfella, or worse. I believe there is definitely racial animosity driving this virus of crowd jeering and booing. Yet another part of me is sure the crowds are not uniform in their motives and that other more innocuous drivers are at play. Humans can be sheeplike and the taller the poppy the

more likely we are to blindly follow the mob. Australians I also sense often dislike the mixing of sport and politics. Goodes has taken a strong political line in some of his public statements as Australian of the Year and the combination of this and the divisiveness of first grade football is a recipe for a polarised crowd. Others perhaps genuinely felt the 13-year-old girl back in 2013 was treated harshly and undoubtedly in a sense she was. She isn’t responsible for the fact that “ape” is a term of racial abuse; maybe she didn’t use it in a deliberate racial sense. Neither is it fair to use her as the exemplar of racism in modern Australia. There is no doubt she was a soft target and Goodes himself has said he had no idea of her age and background when he called her out that day. One thing is certain. If this viral crowd animosity drives a champion from the game before his time, history will look back on it as an absolute tragedy. I’m tipping Goodes to take a break and come back like the champion he is. ■

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Weekender regular Sally Bryant was born with her nose in a book and if no book is available, she finds herself reading Cornflakes packets, road signs and instruction manuals for microwaves. All that information has to go somewhere...

Sally Bryant In my book, I can meet anything but a deadline HY is it I cannot complete the simplest task until it comes down to the wire? I can start the week knowing I have a task that must be completed, and I have that knowledge front and centre in my cerebellum. I know in my bones (if in fact itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible to hold sentient thought in ones bones) that I could get started on that little job and even get it completed before the due date. I know, deep in my entrails, that I will get to the end of the week (or even on Wednesday evening; say about the time I want to go home and put my feet up) and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be faced with the reality of burning the midnight oil to do that last little task. And the really galling thing is that then, as I sweat blood to complete the task, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find myself thinking back to all those times during the week when I could so easily have extracted my digit and done the task ahead of time. Regrets, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had more than a few, and most of them are felt as I contemplate my wasted hours, as I hammer out my overdue work. My timeline goes something like this: beginning of the week, planning what I have to do. Nekminnit, deadline around my neck if not already passed and various people glaring at me and tapping their watches. I suspect itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for this very reason that so many people counselled me to pursue journalism as a career. And I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remarkable that I have spent so much of my admittedly peripatetic career doing anything but work as a journalist. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also spent much of that time being the devil come-lately who gums up the works by not having her projects completed. But not necessarily as a journalist. There are those who would argue that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spent so very much of my entire career doing anything other than work. Harsh but possibly true. I can explain

that; they say if you do something you enjoy for a living, then youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never work a day in your life. And I do enjoy what I do. Sadly, I also seem to enjoy procrastinating and the fallout is that getting the job done in the end can be very hard work indeed. Of course, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not alone in this. And, working as I am these days, in the field of journalism, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m privy to the work habits of a lot of household names who have even an even more appalling predilection for procrastination than me. (They all earn more than me too. Perhaps I need to refine my deadline dodging to achieve real fame.) If you think about it, the very term â&#x20AC;&#x153;deadlineâ&#x20AC;? is something of an indicator of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involved here. We have the conjunction of the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;deadâ&#x20AC;? and other word â&#x20AC;&#x153;lineâ&#x20AC;?. That would be the mark in the sand that caused the loss of life. Of course, there are tasks I can meet well ahead of deadline. Years ago, a band named Crash Test Dummies released a song called Afternoons and Coffee Spoons, and there were frequent references to wearing pyjamas in the daytime. At some distant point in the future. It was a great song, we sang it to bits. It was delicious little piece of irony with some lovely literary references. Jolly clever. Except now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become my anthem. There are a few treats I look forward to at the end of the day, but none so much as the flannelette pyjamas, the warm and ugly dressing gown and the increasingly unattractive ugg boots. It would seem that, when it comes to embracing the habits of curmudgeonly old age, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m well ahead of my time. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m positively pioneering when it comes to early senility. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not totally my fault, of course. When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on early shift, and I start work in the middle of the night, I have

` Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not even going to speak about the looks you get when everyone else is having a cup of tea and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nearly time we knocked the top of the cocktail cabinet.

my breakfast at about the same time as I used to go to bed when I was a bright young thing who attended dodgy nightclubs. That actually doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t raise an eyebrow; people get that. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the office at the crack of last night, then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite acceptable to be eating your breakfast then. But if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had your breakfast in the very wee small hours, then you start looking for your lunch about the time everyone else is having morning tea. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to be an early adopter of lunch when all the best eateries, and some of the seriously horrid ones, are still adhering to their breakfast menu. You KNOW which ones Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m referring to... Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible to have a bacon and egg roll for lunch, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annoying that you cannot eat that soup or pasta your heart desires because the kitchens are feeding the late risers with their porridge. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not even going to speak about the looks you get when everyone else is having a cup of tea and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nearly time we knocked the top of the cocktail cabinet. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for this very reason that journalists are such recalcitrants when it comes to toeing the line on time. The timeline as it were. Could it be that we journalists spend so much of our lives living in an alternative time zone that time becomes an illusory concept, a bit of a Dr Who construct? We duck and we weave, we dodge and we dive and as weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sliding through the space-time continuum, we discover that our Wednesday morning deadline has turned into a thing of the past. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve re-entered that space in its wake. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love to tell you Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m one of those people who can colour in between the lines, the ones who use their diaries and cover their textbooks at the beginning of the school term. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be lyinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. â&#x2013;

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A tale you can sink your teeth into Comment by YVETTE AUBUSSON -FOLEY Dubbo Weekender writer and journalist.

NE week and five minutes ago, I did not know who Mick Fanning was. Since he went toe-to-toe with a shark and turned that apparently shameful fact around; the real sense of his celebrity only became apparent when the Google God revealed he had 398,000 “likes” on Facebook. I say had, because even that’s so last week. It’s now 406,001. Yes, the “1” is me. Mick and I go way back to last week when anyone with Internet access gagged on their tuna sandwich watching THAT fin close in and THAT wave rise, like a stomach in a throat, to block the live feed. This week he’s in the headlines again for going back into the water, rightly applauded for facing his fears, although maneating sharks prefer colder seas and how unlucky would he be if lightning really did strike a surf board twice. Talk about pushing the envelope, though. “Snapper” Rocks for his debut? Someone has a sense of humour. I do wonder outside of surfing circles how long though Mick Fanning will stay interesting to the media. His story of survival will forever hang like a trophy in the collective poolroom of the Australian psyche, pegged until the next time a new shark tale comes along when we’ll take it down off the wall and remember where were you when Mick Fanning was attacked, or wonder where is Mick now? Last week he was “trending now” and you’d be hard pressed to find anyone in the world who didn’t know where he was: on the phone with his mum, flying with mates back to Oz, hugging fellow surfer Julian Wilson. This week he’s still a curiosity but next week? Who knows what will be in the headlines. He’ll still be wrestling with the what-ifs and as he seems like an alright bloke, probably enjoying a new lease on life and appreciating the simple things that matter. Guaranteed he is not the same man he was last week. Few walk away from the transformative effects of a near death experience with a shark, unchanged.

Just ask Rodney Fox. A celebrated survivor of a Great White attack when in 1963 while defending a spear fishing championship at Aldinga Beach south of Adelaide, a Great White had a red hot go at biting him in two. He managed to bear-hug the shark until rescuers arrived, despite looking like he’d been through an office shredder, needing 462 stitches in his chest and 92 stitches in his right hand and arm. Total carnage. But what a career move. The photographs of his wounds are unbelievable and not for the squeamish. He very nearly did and should have died. But he survived. It’s probably hard to believe for Millennials, but even without Facebook his experience touched minds and hearts for a long, long time. He was even the leading authority 12 years later (given shark attacks are actually few and far between) to pay it forward as a consultant on the 1975 Steven Spielberg movie, Jaws. Now that’s a meme few would ever forget. He also runs a successful diving business in South Australia, giving the willing the chance to face their fears and get up close with Great Whites in the safety of a submerged cage.

` True bravery can’t be measured in Facebook likes either, although in the case of Fanning’s page it proves his moment touched people...

One for the bucket list. Surviving a brush with death is definitely a wakeup call. We probably all have one or two stories to tell. Doing it in the public eye is the ultimate career move and a product endorsement dream, although Rip Curl and Red Bull were frowned upon for photo bombing Fanning’s post-trauma press call and for marketing their brands on the back of the near death experience of a man who was not at the time working as their human billboard. Some sharks do wear suits. There are far less substantial reasons today too for why someone can earn widespread celebrity so though a dangerous path; Fanning and Fox are worthy survivors, both proving you can conquer fears and get back in the water, literally and figuratively. They’re living proof that we ought not to curl up and die in the face of fear, but live and learn. That’s real bravery and a decent reason for earning fame. Truly brave people rarely do. They battle cancer, live with disability; care for the elderly, fight for social change. Not very sexy. True bravery can’t be measured in Facebook likes either, although in the case of Fanning’s page it proves his moment touched people. Compelled to give him a

thumbs up, in part to say, “Phew mate, that was close, glad you’re still here” and in part because we know in the same situation we might have messed our wetsuit and dare I say it, screamed like a girl. Like the rest of the connected world, I breathed that collective sigh of relief that he’d survived but my second thought was “Please don’t let him become a television presenter on the back of something like this”. Sure, his world champ surfing status would carry him through but when a random act of kindness from a shark can catapult you into a media career, what does it say about the tertiary education system charging thousands of hopefuls through the nose to plug away for years toward the same goal? Are a Go-pro, a Rip Curl surfboard and a can of Red Bull better investments? To his credit, Fanning’s posttraumatic experience captured in live television interviews – at a time when adrenalin would be hammering his brain – were impressive. He spoke articulately and F-bomb-free. So he has the credentials: illustrious career, good communication skills, survived a shark attack and bonus card, he’s telegenic too. If he does give surfing away, a new career awaits. ■

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Cr Mathew Dickerson

Mayor Mathew Dickerson was born and bred in Dubbo and is married with four children.

Steering regional cities in the right direction VOCITIES is the saviour of regional Australia! It might seem like an extraordinary statement but I firmly believe that Evocities – and other programs that perform similar roles in other states – are required to see long-term growth in regional areas. Those of us intelligent enough to live in a regional city know that the simple facts show there is no compelling reason to live in a major metropolitan area – like Sydney. Look at the raw data: the median house price is Sydney is more than $1 million; the average weekly time spent commuting across our state capitals is more than five hours; the population density in the capitals is 310 people per square kilometre; if you live in a state capital the pollution alone will reduce your life expectancy by 72 days and the list goes on. When a reasonable and rational person looks at the data, they’d have to ask why anyone would want to live in a capital city. The only vaguely logical reason I can come up with is...ignorance. If people in Sydney knew they could move to an Evocity and decrease their financial stress, decrease their commute time, increase their life expectancy and enjoy a more relaxed lifestyle, they would be moving to regional areas in droves. So I can only put the fact that they aren’t doing so down to one reason – complete and utter ignorance. Total ignorance that there is a better lifestyle awaiting them just outside the Sydney basin. That is where Evocities comes in. Evocities was officially launched in September 2010 – purely and simply as a marketing program to educate people in Sydney as to the benefits of regional living. With an extremely limited marketing budget, it has achieved a lot – but there is a lot more work to be done. There are more than 4.8 million people living in Sydney at the moment and marketing any brand in the Sydney market is extremely expensive. So far the campaign has touched a very small percentage of that population but the results have been very positive. The challenge now is to keep the marketing campaign going.

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The capital city commute: The Warringah freeway in Sydney. PHOTO: AAP/DAN HIMBRECHTS

A few weeks ago the seven mayors of Evocities made the most significant change in the short history of the program to the makeup of the committee charged with the responsibility of converting dollars to relocators. When the program was launched, the job of the seven councils was to vote for money to be directed to Evocities ($60,000 per council per year) and the job of the steering committee was to make decisions on the most appropriate expenditure of that money to gain the

` The people who need the information are those sitting in traffic late at night on their way home from work to their million dollar one bedroom unit that’s beside a train line...

1. MEASUREMENTS: What is the Fahrenheit equivalent of 100 degrees Celsius? 2. GEOGRAPHY: How many US states border the state of Missouri? 3. LANGUAGE: What is a pangram? 4. BIBLE: What kind of birds did Noah send to find dry land? 5. MUSIC: Which pop music song contains the phrase, “You can’t hide your lyin’ eyes”? 6. ART: Jean Arp was a founding member of what art movement in the early 1900s?

best result. That has served us well for the past four years but it would be fair to say that perhaps the steering committee was taking us in a slightly different direction compared with where the councillors may have wanted us to go. Rather than throw the baby out with the bathwater, the seven mayors of the Evocities made a decision to influence the direction of Evocities by installing one of their number as the steering committee chair. For all my passion for Evocities, I was rewarded with the role as the inaugural mayoral chair. Our first meeting was held this week and I was incredibly impressed with the talent sitting around the table with the committee members – made up of representatives from each council. With a current funding application in with the Minister for Regional Development John Barilaro, I am confident the state government will match the councils dollar for dollar and, with the po-

7. LANDMARKS: What style of structure is the Washington Monument? 8. MOVIES: Who has won the most Oscars for Best Director of a film? 9. FIRSTS: Who was the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal for tennis? 10. INVENTIONS: What company first developed the floppy disk? 11. GOLF: Who was the last repeat captain of the US Ryder Cup squad before Tom Watson (1993, 2014)? 12. BUSINESS: What Aboriginal

tential for additional corporate sponsorship, I see that it won’t be long before Evocities has an annual marketing budget of $1 million. In the Sydney market I don’t think this is a huge amount of money but I certainly feel as though we will be able to educate a significantly higher proportion of the population. It is a simple example of the landscape changing in a relatively short space of time and councils needing to be responsive and adaptable to change – or be left behind. Keep an eye on this space but don’t expect to see ads for Evocities around our region. We assume people living in regional areas have already worked it out – the people who need the information are those sitting in traffic late at night on their way home from work to their million dollar one bedroom unit that’s beside a train line. Once we increase the coverage of our message, stand back for population explosion in our regional cities – and the surrounding towns. ■

term for a waterhole is also the name of an Australian clothing company? 13. LYRICS: Name the song that contains this lyric: “The problem is all inside your head, she said to me, The answer is easy if you take it logically, I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free.” ANSWERS: SEE THE PLAY PAGES.

TALES FROM THE TRAILS.

Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Weekender regular Lisa Minner continues with a weekly series highlighting some of the faces, places and hidden gems along our own beautiful stretch of the Macquarie River.

A man who can turn his hand to any profession, Mal Bye reflects on a life well lived but hard earned. His positive attitude has been his saving grace – he never gives up and isn't afraid to fail. As a result this Dubbo-based man has seen and done things most of us could only imagine and he still has a bucket list as long as your arm, writes LISA MINNER.

BY THE BYE

HE term jack-of-all-trades is often bandied around with reference to someone who seems able to do a number of things well, but next to the term in the dictionary there’s the face of local man Mal Bye. Well that’s not entirely true, but it should be. Bye’s life has been a colourful – it’s a life that’s taken him around Australia smithing, building boats and working cattle to name but a few of the occupations to which he’s turned his hand. At the age of 64 he hasn’t slowed down yet – he’s trying to, but it seems his “go

hard or go home” nature is at odds with his plans to enjoy a quieter lifestyle. That includes paddling down the Macquarie and Darling Rivers in a canoe he’s in the process of making from wood and fibreglass – a pursuit that, given his history, isn’t in the least surprising. ORN in Bourke to a sheep and cattle farming family, Bye’s childhood saw him leave home at the age of seven to attend school in Geurie where he and his sister boarded for 12 months before returning to Bourke where the siblings then boarded at the

town’s hostel. Life was hard after their mother died at a young age and their father was struggling to cope on their isolated property, Kiaora at Yantabulla – a 55,000 acre station located 100 kilometers the other side of Bourke on the Hungerford Road – back country. Eventually the young Bye found some stability when he moved into town to board with an older lady by the name of Alice Dorrick, but he was soon shuffled off again, this time to St Joseph’s boarding school in Sydney for two years. He describes the culture shock of moving to Sydney

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TALES FROM THE TRAILS.

Above: The canoe Mal is making out of wood and fibreglass. He plans on paddling between Bourke and Brewarrina in it. Right: Mal on ANZAC day this year with grandson Charlie Sutton who is seen wearing his great great grandfather’s medals. Reg was a light horseman in the first world war.

as feeling “like a three legged frog in a snake pit”. “I didn’t learn much at school, I just jacked up on it; it didn’t interest me too much but I could play football and I really got on with them after they saw I could play rugby.” With a basic education under his belt he returned to Yantabulla at the age of 15, and ended up droving and learning the bush trade. “My family – Tom, my dad, and my Reg, my grandfather, were horse breakers, great horsemen, so that life was familiar to me and I did a number of things like shearing and fencing.” With very little money in his pocket, Bye recalls going to the local emporium in Bourke where he explained to the owners that he’d just secured work. With no decent work clothes and more importantly no work boots to his name, the owners let him book his gear up as a goodwill gesture. This kindness made an impact on the teenager who from there on made it a personal ethos to honour his word and his debts. HE work took him out to Bullo Downs Station and all around the channel country with his pack horses before he eventually returned to Wanaaring where he camped out for a time. After finally securing work at Landmark, Bye says “things came good again” but around this time, the Vietnam War was escalating and the army was recruiting. “I signed up, volunteered for national service and I left my horses on a place called Amaroo and headed off to the army joining (First Royal Australian Regiment) 1RAR in Townsville,” he says. Far from bemoaning military service, Bye says it was one of the greatest times in his life. He says he fit in well with the routine and for the first time in his life, found the stability and camaraderie he’d never experienced before, not to mention the things many of his regiment took for granted, like regular meals and clothing provisions. “It was the greatest life – honest. I couldn’t believe how good the food was and the accommodation. I’d been use to rolling a swag out...” Bye was again drawn to the sporting side of things and found he was a bit of an ace at boxing, becoming both the middle-weight champion of 1RAR and the Northern Command. “I don’t know if I could fight, but I could take

So, running on intuition rather than any actual a hiding!” he says, laughing at the memory. knowledge, Bye’s career as a shipwright began. As a “grunt” (infantry), Bye was jungle-trained for overseas combat. At this time the Vietnam conflict was “I though geez, where do I start? So I asked a few receding so his regiment was sent to New Guinea to questions and had a go and within a week I was a fulldeal with the conflict on the border at Iranian Jaya. fledged shipwright,” he laughs. He recalls that on his return to Australia, the forces were allowing people to get out of the army. Bye didn’t ROM there the versatile bushie branched out into want to leave, but his longing for the “back country” engineering after being asked to work on a shaft where his horses were waiting for him was strong. that needed straightening out. That led to fixHe again headed for the bush, hunting both ‘roos ing propellers and boat engines. He found himself in and foxes for a quid. a good position because when the boats weren’t out “I had a heap of money around then; foxes were working, they’d be in being repaired so that gave him worth $15 each and that was big money back in those fulltime work between the two related industries. days – 1976. I was a good bushman, I knew it real well; Later, Bye was offered a 45-foot wooden prawn I was a good shot.” trawler to skipper and buoyed on by that experience But life took another sharp turn for Bye when he met and drawing on his “shipwrighting” skills, he decided his wife Amanda and everything changed. to try his hand at building one of his own. “We went to Cairns for our honeymoon and we were By this time he’d also gained his 1A Ship Masters fooling around up there and there we saw a yacht for (ocean going) certificates and qualifications in celessale, so we said why not? And we bought it.” tial navigation. With a 32 foot yacht they decided to call home, the But while the lifestyle was one he grew to love, the country boy learned how to get his sea-legs. seasonal routine of fishing meant he was away quite After living the easy life for a while and getting to often for up to three months at a time. With his two know the locals, someone made an offer on their yacht beautiful daughters Tara and Karen now in the mix, so they sold it after 12 months but the love of water the lifestyle seemed in conflict with the couple’s want and boats was by this time firmly entrenched, and to raise their daughters in a more stable way with both while their home was now a regular landlubber’s, Bye parents present. decided to buy a fishing boat – a 35 foot “mackeral“I didn’t want my kids to come up on their own, bebarra boat” he called Black Magic. cause I knew how hard it was and I didn’t want that for “I took to that like a duck to water; I adored the life, them so we made a decision to move back to the famabsolutely loved it in the fishing industry and did okay, ily property at Yantabulla,” he says admitting his two but the work is seasonal so in the off season I found great loves – the bush and the sea – were an advertisement for a shipwright. I made conflicting for his attention. up a carpenter’s tool box and headed to the In the end and for the sake of better shipyard with the box sitting on my shoulschooling, Bye and the family moved to the der, wearing shorts and thongs and a hat...” settlement of Toongi, near Dubbo, where He says the boss told him – without so I don’t know he eventually purchased the property that much as a question about his “shipwright- if I could fight, would become the family home for the ing” background (which was non-existent) next 20 years. – to go and lay some planks in the boat but I could He kept up the shearing and odd jobs they were working on. take a hiding! but also discovered he had a talent for X

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X drawing and water colour painting. He became fixated on learning how to paint with oils, so he traded a couple of pack saddles and a rifle for some paint and ten lessons and began learning from an already established painter. The results have yielded some amazing rural and outback landscapes over the years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we defeat ourselves by not having a go, if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make mistakes youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not learning, you know? I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why my life has been so diverse â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not afraid to give anything a go.â&#x20AC;? Bye now spends his time doing handyman work around Dubbo and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s booked up solidly. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currently working on Judy Calthorpeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bulwarra B&B and she is the first to say thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing this bloke canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t turn his hand to. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have never found life too difficult, maybe in the beginning but once you get the swing of things, you find nothings too hard, really,â&#x20AC;? says Bye. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t chuck the towel in; you just have to keep on going.â&#x20AC;? HE family has also moved from their Toongi home to one closer to town after Alkane Resources purchased the property.

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Bye says the experience of selling the family home was hard initially. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We sold to the mines. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been negotiating for years but once weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d come to an agreement, it was their word and a handshake. I found Mike (Sutherland), Ian (Chalmers) and Tony (Lethlean) from Alkane management were very trustworthy and honest â&#x20AC;&#x201C; their word was their word. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been my philosophy too.â&#x20AC;? Now settled, Bye has made a promise to slow down and has a list of more relaxing and creative things heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to pursue like fishing, painting and paddling down a couple of our nearby river systems. With a can-do attitude always at the heart of his beliefs, he has some words of inspiration to share: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are alone omnipotent. Q

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RiverSmart’s Tiger Bay Wetlands photo competition

Mia Huddleston’s winning photo – First Sunrise

To mark the recent opening of Stage Two of its Window on the Wetlands (WOW) Centre in Warren, not-for-profit organisation RiverSmart staged a photo competition with participants asked to take photos of the adjoining Tiger Bay Wetlands. Winner of the competition was local Mia Huddleton who also took some stunning images of the surrounding areas, including the local sewage treatment plant. Such a place has never looked so good! RiverSmart is now fund-raising through crowdfunding for Stage Three of this education, recreation and cultural centre, the link for which is on the website www. riversmart.org.au. Once the WOW Centre is fully operational it will offer guided day trips to the Macquarie Marshes as well as many other great things to do along the river – all of which you’ll find described through Macquarie Valley Trails at www. rivertrails.com.au Weekender is proud to support RiverSmart and to treat readers to a peek at some of the stunning images captured by entrants in the photo competition.

Belinda Bell of Warren – Second place

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The Love Boat: The Lost Years – Part 6 This week, we continue our series chronicling the outlandish adventures of an ocean liner adrift in tropical seas – in which Andrew G gives Weekender readers an exclusive behind the scenes glimpse at what really happened on The Love Boat – when Tony met Billy. It’s an unlikely – and wholly fictional – love story... In last week’s Love Boat, Captain Tony had taken a lift up to the bridge... while First Officer Pyne amused himself with oil (and Sylvester Stallone) and the unionised Somali pirates continued to remain silent.

ULIE “Token” Bishop gazed down at Barnacle’s hand. It was a lovely hand; soft, faintly pink with fine brown hair giving just a dusting of colour. The nails were well manicured, trimmed short with a healthy sheen. There’d be no scratching from this man, she thought idly. She turned his hand over and read his palm. It was what her mother used to call an “almost palm”, lots of things seemed to “almost” happen but the line would somehow trail off or simply stop. His fingers were equally soft and supple except for a slight series of dimples across the top. She knew better than to ask but they were the tell-tale imprints of the numbers from his union credit card. Captain Tony stood with his back to the lift. He had always known he would be betrayed. In his young days at The Fiery Heart of Sacred Flagellation Infants’ School, Sister Bunion had constantly reminded him that the Bible was not about him. But Tony knew better. He could count off the similarities. Jesus walked everywhere; Tony loved to exercise. Jesus disappeared between the ages of seven and 30; no–one remembered that Tony was the worst health minister the world had

ever seen. Jesus had a band of followers who were prepared to believe in magic; so did Tony. Jesus seldom made mistakes; Tony was infallible. Jesus loved three word slogans (“Love thy neighbour”); Tony had nothing but. Jesus had his Judas... and now so did Tony. “You,” said Gopher. “You viper, you rat snake, you blonde-hooded cobra, you legless lizard that still scares the crap out of you when you see it in the garden. “Ah, Gopher,” replied Token. “I wondered when you’d have a clue.” Tony was saying nothing. Indeed, he appeared to have become catatonic. He stood staring at the scene before him, his body tense and shaking, his head nodding in short, sharp repetitions. Gopher took charge. He stepped forward, puffed out his chest, put on his glasses, spread his legs as far apart as he dared, and began. “I demand, under the International Law of the Ocean, that you hereby and without delay, and in full cognisance of the guilt of the crimes which you have committed, return command of this boat to the lawfully commissioned Captain, that being Captain Tony. “What law was that?” asked Barnacle Bill in a voice that dripped with transparently false earnestness. “The Law of the Ocean. “Ah, the Law of the Ocean,” mused Bill. He turned to Token: “Have you still got that memo? “I do,” said Token Julie. She suavely

slid off the high stool next to the command station and took a folder from the map table. She opened it, removed a piece of paper, and placed the folder back on the table. “Can you read it again for me?” asked Bill. Token Bishop turned towards Captain Tony and Gopher. “It says, “The International Law of the Ocean is a stupid stinky-poo law that I don’t like and it doesn’t let me just do whatever I want so I’m not going to obey it anymore and I want an ice-cream. Signed, Gopher Morrison.”” Julie reopened the folder and slipped the paper back inside with a satisfied smile. “But that was for other things, like sinking boats full of dark people. “It was,” replied Token, “And it worked a treat. But when you signed that memo and changed the law did you forget that,

In his young days at The Fiery Heart of Sacred Flagellation Infants’ School, Sister Bunion had constantly reminded him that the Bible was not about him.

as Chief Bartender of the Love Boat, I am the one in charge of all international matters? For example, do you know where Jamaican Rum comes from? Swiss cheese?” Gopher shook his head. “What makes a Manhattan? A Long Island Iced Tea?” Gopher continued shaking his head and stared at his feet. “But I wanted to sink a boat full of dark people, and I really, really wanted an ice-cream.” Captain Tony awoke from his immobile state with a small, sharp fart, like jump starting a ‘94 Corolla. “Forget that,” he said, “Let’s get started on what needs doing now. “What’s that?” asked Gopher as Tony swept away the collected notes from a metallic notice board next to the lift. Tony looked across at Gopher. He smiled, reached deep inside his trousers and pulled out his secret weapon. Gopher looked around for First Officer Pyne but strangely, he was nowhere to be seen. Captain Tony held aloft a small, battered box, the words Fridge Magnet Poetry still faintly visible on its cover. “It’s time for a new three word slogan,” he cried. Will Captain Tony and Gopher save the day in three words or less? Is Julie really playing for the other side? Are the soft, sensual hands of Barnacle Bill truly in charge of the tiller? To be continued...

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Promoting the value of native grasses

Clare Edwards of Local Land Services. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

BY KIM V. GOLDSMITH IN response to interest by landholders across the Central West and Central Tablelands, an updated guide to native grasses has just been released by Local Land Services (LLS) in partnership with native grass specialists from the Department of Primary Industries. Common native grasses of central west NSW covers 33 common native grasses found across the two LLS regions, from Lithgow to Nyngan, Grenfell to Coonamble. Senior Land Services Officer Pastures, Clare Edwards, says the original guide, published by the former Central West Catchment Management Authority, was a very popular publication and the decision to revisit it has come from demand for the information. “We’ve added five more native

grass species found across the slopes, plains and tablelands. “Native grasses, especially perennials are an important component of pastures, native grasslands, woodland and forest understories and this guide provides information on how to recognise the value of them. “We expect it will give graziers information to better recognise the value of native grasses within grazing systems and the natural environment.” Edwards says native grasses do have value as a grazing resource and as part of the biodiversity of the region. The promotion of native grasses on farms in the region has been a long and ongoing effort by those who see their value, going back decades. While interest from landholders in identifying and manag-

Building approvals fall in June SYDNEY: Building approvals in June suffered

their largest monthly fall since September 2014, led down by a major drop in the volatile high density dwellings category. Approvals for the construction of new homes fell 8.2 per cent in June, which was worse than market expectations of a 0.9 per cent fall. Over the 12 months to June, building approvals were up 8.6 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday. Approvals for private sector houses rose 4.3 per cent in the month, and the ‘other dwellings’ category, which includes apartment blocks and townhouses, was down 20.4 per cent.

ing native grasses is evident, Edwards says the attitude towards their value in a farming system is still dependent on the production goals of individual farming operations. “It depends on what native grasses you have, but it’s a bit like introduced species, there are some native grass species that are very handy...things like Microlaena and Danthonia that are very handy for giving good quality green feed all year round. “Then there are some species that are problematic in terms of animal health, or can be detrimental to animals. “There are others that support different species and ecosystems...diversity is very important as well.” Edwards says the interest in native grasses comes from two principle objectives – identifying what

Sunbeam owner’s profit soars to $33.2 million SYDNEY: The company behind Sunbeam

kitchen appliances and Oates cleaning products has almost doubled its annual profit as sales rose to record levels. GUD Holdings made a net profit of $33.2 million in the year to June 30, up 88 per cent from $17.7 million in the prior year. Sales rose three per cent from the previous year to a record $612 million, while lower freight, logistic and warranty costs also contributed to the profit growth, the company said. AAP

is already there and re-establishing species. “In some cases you can’t manage or monitor if you don’t know what you have – putting a line in the sand, you need to know what you have first before you can increase your natives. “The questions are what have you got in your pastures, where are they growing, how it grows? “The book covers some of that information but also about the quality of individual species and how good it might be for livestock production.” She says the importance of native grasses extends beyond the farm gate as well, providing not only an aesthetic value in our grasslands, but as habitat and food sources for birds and other native animals. The free guide is available from your Local Land Services office. ■

Fresh class action against Cash Converters BRISBANE: Australia’s largest payday lender Cash Converters has exceeded the legal limit for interest rates and charges to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, a fresh class action alleges. The lender allegedly charged customers interest rates of up to 160 per cent in addition to brokerage fees, despite the legal limit in Queensland being set at 48 per cent per annum for consumer credit contracts.

“The practice was deliberate and systematic,” Maurice Blackburn special counsel Miranda Nagy said. “It resulted in vulnerable people incurring massive additional fees and interest.” The company has requested a trading halt for its shares on the Australian stock exchange due to reports of the class action being served. The shares dropped one cent to 70 cents before the AAP halt was introduced.

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Local investors warned with spruikers on notice ASPIRING property investors in the Dubbo and Orana region have been warned to beware of dodgy property investment schemes, with NSW Fair Trading issuing a stern rebuke to promoters to operate legally or face sanctions. NSW Fair Trading Commissioner Rod Stowe said the practices of a number of “spruikers” were being examined, with a common theme being the misleading of consumers at to the benefits of buying into a particular scheme. Regulators closely examined the activities of traders between 2013 and 2015. Twenty traders received legal notices requiring them to substantiate claims made in advertisements and at their seminars “Regulators across Australia have initiated court action to stop promoters who promise financial benefits they cannot deliver on or who fail to tell people about their cooling-off rights to get out of a service they were pressured into buying at a ‘free’ seminar,” Stowe said this week. This prompted legal action against at least 10 entities and their associates, and legally-enforceable undertakings were given to regulators by seven traders. A total of 67 education/warning letters were also issued. Fair Trading is “sending the message to the industry” that it must act fairly with consumers or face action by consumer law regulators using the Aus-

tralian Consumer Law. Before buying an investment property from a property promoter, consumers should conduct their own research and always obtain independent financial and legal advice. Consumers should also be wary of: l High-pressure sales tactics characterised by rushed decision-making and contract signing and the payment of fees (including discounts offered to seminar attendees who sign up on the day) l Inferences that a system is ‘government approved’; l Claims of capital growth rates that may not be independent or credible; l Spruikers who don’t allow questions or who ignore or downplay the risks and costs involved; l Spruikers who suggest specific investment opportunities such as a particular property development, as they may be receiving a commission or have an undisclosed interest; l Promoters pushing people to buy properties interstate that cannot be seen, or off the plan properties that do not yet exist; l Promoters requiring participants to sign non-disclosure agreements. Further information on the Australian Consumer Law is available at www. consumerlaw.gov.au. Enquiries can be made to NSW Fair Trading on 13 32 20 or at www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au. ■

Cost of living rises as families cut back BY WARREN BARNSLEY SYDNEY: Households are going without food and medicines and are unable to pay bills as cost of living pressures take hold, welfare advocates say. Decreasing affordability of electricity, petrol and food are the biggest concerns for consumers, according to a new survey by consumer group Choice. More than 80 per cent of respondents worried about the price of power in the June quarter, making it the most troubling item for households. Gavin Dufty from St Vincent de Paul said more families were unable to meet the costs of essentials. “One of the things we find is there’s a bigger bill load at certain times of the year, so households feel cost pressures at different times,” he said. “Some households are unable to pay for essential services so they get disconnected when big winter energy bills come around.” The latest Consumer Pulse Report, released Thursday, showed 78 per cent of consumers were worried about the price of fuel, with the same proportion concerned about food and grocery

prices. “Households will go without things,” Mr Dufty said. “Some parents will go without food so the kids can eat. Older people will not fill their prescriptions.” Choice chief executive Alan Kirkland said cost pressures were affecting households across the board, but hitting some parts of the community worse than others. “Renters, low-income households and the unemployed (are) most likely to be struggling, and families with school-aged kids the group most concerned about rising household expenses,” he said. Nine out of 10 families with schoolaged children said bills increased in the last 12 months, while 74 per cent of parents with children under five are worried about childcare fees. “One of the new groups presenting for assistance is young couples who lose a source of income when they start a family and are then hit with the high costs associated with raising kids,” said Mr Dufty. “So it’s not surprising that group is AAP represented in the report.”

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Do you have the best accountant? Try this quick quiz. Y OU might be out to dinner with friends and the topic of money or tax comes up. Almost invariably at some stage the words “You need a good accountant” enter the conversation. But what makes a good accountant? Better still what would the best accountant look like? Here are five questions you should be asking: #1. Do they understand my financial needs? LIKE anything in business, in order to become the best in what you do, a tax accountant or business accountant needs to understand their client needs. If you went to the doctor, the first thing they usually ask is, “Tell me what’s bothering you?” Your accountant should be no different. They also should find out what your end game (i.e. financial objectives) is so that any advice takes that into account. #2. How do they propose to help me achieve these? ONCE an accountant understands what your needs and goals are, exactly how are they going to help you get there? This is where it’s important to find out the different services they offer. Look for: z Minimum Service Offerings; z Business planning and goal setting; z Monitoring services that will keep you on track; z Tax minimisation strategies; z Understanding of what makes a business valuable; z Getting the best deal from your bank #3. How do they stay up-to-date? A GOOD accountant knows their stuff. A great accountant never stops learning. If you see an accountant who looks as though they are winding down and appear to be getting ready to retire and/or aren’t offering any new services regularly, these could be signs that things are getting a bit staid. The best accountants should be: z Using technology to offer better value services to their clients; z Learning from their peers; z Going to business advisory and tax updates; z Looking for efficiencies through cloud accounting wherever possible. It’s not always a sign, but usually accountants that are looking to grow their business are making sure they are right across all of the latest tax and business advisory techniques. If they’re not they are going to get left behind.

#4. Are they proactive or reactive? IF an accountant is doing everything in #3 above, then it follows they should be on the front foot and letting their clients knowing about these things. There is nothing more embarrassing for an accountant to find out from their clients that one of their friends had a similar problem and their accountant suggested a better way. #5. How do they charge? THE days of looking how much time a job took, adding it all up and sending the client a bill are over. Those that are billing this way make some bills substantially more than the previous year. People don’t like surprises! The modern accountant quotes a fixed fee for almost all services regardless how long a job takes. Encouraging clients to ring with a query should be promoted without fear from the client they will be charged. The forward thinking accountants don’t even have an hourly rate – it’s all about producing an outcome for the client. Remember, cheapest may not always be best, but value is critical. If you know what your fee will be and you get exactly what you want, with a modern approach and service, you might end up paying more but be much better off financially. Value pricing for clients is critical. In summary... CHANCES are your accountant is doing a great job. Coming from across the other side of the desk, the questions above are what accountants and business advisors should be asking themselves when considering the services they are offering their clients and potential clients. Whilst the list is not exhaustive, it’s a pretty good guide as to what the best accountants seem to be doing.

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Breast practice The reality of breastfeeding for many mothers and their newborns is not blissful afterglow but confusion, heartache and frustration. Debra Dixon, a nonpracticing registered nurse is also an international board certified lactation consultant based in Dubbo. In the lead up to Breast Awareness Week, Dubbo Weekender spoke about her private practice. As told to Yvette Aubusson-Foley. Why would a mother seek a service like yours? There’s a whole host of reasons. Babies can be born prematurely or small for dates; it might be a sick baby, it could be a mother who has health problems, which are impacting on her endocrine system – diabetic mothers for example. The mothers may have had caesarians, or births where they’ve had interventions such as forceps deliveries. They may have had narcotics during labour which affects the baby’s sucking. Also the mother may have received conflicting advice from her mother, from a neighbour, from the nurses, from the woman’s husband; there can be a whole lot of information that can be confusing. Does every mother need to see a specialist? There are always things you can teach people. There are certainly people who need help. A lot of times they don’t know the help’s there. You can’t really predict. Some women you think will have problems, don’t. Some you think will be fine have no end of problems. Is it typically new mothers seeking breastfeeding help? Some of them are new mums who really don’t know much at all. Suddenly they’ve had a baby and it’s upon them. Many have been focused on the birth and they thought it would all go smoothly but it hasn’t. Then there’s other second time mums who are confident that they have breastfed others well, but know there’s something not working with this baby. The baby might have a tonguetie for example. Some had bad experiences with their first baby and don’t want it to happen again. They want a better support system than they had before.

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Can the idea of breastfeeding cause anxiety for women? Some of the mothers are just so overwhelmed with everything and they don’t know what to do. You can see their minds are in so many different places and they just can’t relax and go with it. They’re just not receiving the information that you’re giving them because they’ve heard so much before and they don’t know who to believe. Does the question of whether or not to use formula create confusion? People can advise mothers to start using formula when it’s not necessary. They’re at a very vulnerable time and usually what I find is that if problems start and are not dealt with at the time, they build up, so you get a whole cascade of problems. To try to fix that at a later stage is always possible, but it’s always a lot harder.

Debra Dixon. PHOTO: DUBBO WEEKENDER/CONNOR COMAN-SARGENT.

Is there stigma for women who have to use formula? There is stigma. There were news items a couple of years ago about breastfeeding experts saying formula should be regulated, so you couldn’t just go to the supermarket and buy formula, it had to be on a script. The person who said it was taken out of context but the media took it and it flew up. Mothers were getting extremely emotional about it, because there are some women who do need to use formula for their own situation. It’s a very emotive topic. Why is it important for women to try to breastfeed? Breastfeeding is the optimal food. It can’t compare to any other food. For a newborn it’s all they need for the first six months. It’s up to the mother and the baby how long they want to feed for. The World Health Organisation guidelines are breastfeeding the first six months and then continue breastfeeding up to 12 months along with gradual introduction of appropriate solids from six months. So breast milk still plays an important part for the first 12 months and then after that time it’s still providing important nutrition to boost immunity. There is also the comfort. It’s not only just the breast milk, it’s the breastfeeding relationship. What does a consultation with you look like? Normally the consultation covers a home visit up to three hours. I take a full health his-

tory and history related to that baby plus the breastfeeding history: what’s been happening, what’s the problem, what does the mother want to achieve and I make suggestions. We’ll agree on something the mother thinks will work for her and what she’s wanting to try. I’ll email her with more information about things that have come up during the consult and follow up in a few days. For women out of Dubbo I will drive up to about two hours. At the moment I’ve been seeing women privately for antenatal and if we’re dong it privately the consultation is customised to what the mother wants. So we’re focusing on issues she’s interested in. If it’s a new mother and it’s all new to her, I’ll just go through the basics of breastfeeding and more what to do once you’re in the hospital. That will be based on the recommendations like skin-to-skin (contact) uninterrupted for two hours is the ideal recommendation for breastfeeding but that’s dependent on hospital policies and staffing, whether that’s possible, but that is the recommendation.

Breastfeeding Awareness Week: August 1-8 For more information on breastfeeding issues including expressing, storing and feeding expressed breast milk to a breastfed baby; weight gain of breastfed babies and weaning visit Debbie Dixon IBCLC CIMI PMC’s website at www. debradixonibclc.com.au.

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Wild thing

BY LISA SALMON ALTHOUGH adventurer Steve Backshall has swum with great white sharks, caught a king cobra and been charged by elephants, his passion for the natural world extends much further than just the deadly. The go-getting naturalist can barely contain his enthusiasm for the far less dangerous mini-beasts found in puddles and ponds, and the wonders of nature that surround us every day – and now he’s on a mission to get families to share his passion. The presenter of the Britishmade TV show Deadly 60

British adventurer Steve Backshall is encouraging parents to cut their kids some slack – and let them play in the great outdoors

wildlife expedition. The films will be available through the Brave Bones Club website. “I have an infinite compendium of ideas that people can try with their youngsters, and my main drive is getting them to do things that are free or cheap ` I do think it’s a very and can be done locally, so they’re important part of life available for eveto learn about constant ryone,” he says. Backshall, who risk assessments, was brought up to look around you on a smallholding surrounded by and figure out what’s rescue animals, genuinely dangerous wants kids to share his love and what’s not.a of wildlife, but points out: “It doesn’t have to be massive iconic mega-animals – I got the majority of my excitement Steve Backshall. PHOTO: PA/MARTIN HARTLEY. when I was young from small things like mini-beasts, worms, slow worms, lizards and grass is fronting a new campaign ing for moths, or giving a bush snakes, and from going to my to encourage children and a big whack and catching all local pond and finding water parents to take part in minithe bugs that drop out of it. adventures outside, winning “These are things that can be scorpions, beetles, dragonfly badges for small-scale outdoor of enormous joy and are poten- larvae and mayfly nymphs. “These are things that – if fun including camping in the tially available to everyone.” back garden, kissing a toad After all, the presenter points you stick them under a magnifying glass – are absolute and jumping puddles. out: “I didn’t start out when I “I’m trying to encourage was six years old by going free- miracles of nature, and you can find them in a puddle.” families to spend more time diving with great white sharks outdoors with their kids,” – it took me 40 years to work Although Backshall’s had his explains Backshall, 42. up to that.” fair share of risky encounters “It’d be very easy for me to Backshall is fronting the with deadly creatures and say you need to take all your Brave Bones Club initiative hostile landscapes, he’s not kids on foot on safari round to encourage kids to embark encouraging families to do the Masai Mara – but not eveon their own adventures, and anything dangerous themselves ryone has that available to is currently filming a series – although he says children them. Everyone does have the of videos featuring simple will learn from playing outpossibility of going to their loactivities children can try, indoors and getting bumped and cal park with a torch and lookcluding making a tent and a bruised.

Why doulas matter Q: “What does a doula do and why would I need one when a midwife will be at the birth of my baby?”

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A: Doula Maddie McMahon, author of Why Doulas Matter (Pinter & Martin), says: “Birth is enormous. Physically and emotionally, it is intense. One midwife and a partner are often just not enough to support you. Midwives go off shift, care for more than one woman at a time, and usually don’t know you. A doula never leaves you and knows your deepest hopes and fears. “Partners need a companion, too. Someone to share the burden of supporting you through labour, sometimes for days. At home and then in hospital; mopping brows, fetching food, holding,

“It’s essential that play is safe and there’s the absolute minimum of risk involved,” he says. “But I do think it’s a very important part of life to learn about constant risk assessments, to look around you and figure out what’s genuinely dangerous and what’s not.” Backshall says there’s also great joy to be found on the seafront, from beachcombing and finding “miracles that have been swept ashore by the waves”, or by going through rockpools and finding crabs and anemones. And it’s not just about kids getting out there and enjoying the wonders of nature alone – parents should share the experiences with them. “We can’t just expect kids to instantly have this knowledge from nowhere. I was very lucky that as a youngster I had parents that were obsessed with the outdoors – they still are now. “They were very adventurous and they always had ideas of things we could do outside. But that’s not going to be the case with everyone, and I want to get as many different ideas out there as possible so adults can get some inspiration. “All the fondest memories I have with my parents are of doing beach things with them when I was a kid, and they’re things I still treasure even now. This is the way that we build up those all-important relationships with our youngsters that will hopefully last the rest of our lives.”

massaging – doulas give partners support and much-needed breaks. “A doula will never judge you. She’s a motherfigure, a sister, a quiet support to everyone in the room. Her loving care and attention to detail creates an atmosphere conducive to gentle birth. “The evidence is clear. A female companion, who is neither part of your social circle nor a member of the hospital staff, has a beneficial effect: shorter labours, less pain relief needed, fewer emergency caesareans and greater parental satisfaction with the birth experience. These things are associated with healthy mothers and babies and less postnatal depression and trauma. “Midwives are superwomen, but it’s unfair of our society to expect them to do it all.”

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Time to move on with the menopause? BY LISA SALMON

SIGNS & SYMPTOMS

SYMPTOMS can vary greatly, but include irregular periods, hot flushes and night sweats, mood swings, fatigue, anxiety and depression and sleeping problems. Headaches and palpitations may also occur, along with a loss of libido, vaginal dryness and pain and urinary problems, brought on by a reduction in the amount of the female sex hormone oestrogen being produced (this stage is called the perimenopause). This reduction eventually leads to eggs not being released by the ovaries every month, so a woman’s periods stop; this needs to happen for 12 consecutive months before menopause has officially been reached. In addition to the better-known hot flushes and mood swings, the loss of oestrogen can lead to other health problems, including osteoporosis, as oestrogen, important for bone health, usually aids in protecting them against thinning.

MEDICAL MENOPAUSE

IF a woman has a surgical menopause, where her ovaries are removed for medical reasons, she will often have a sudden menopause with severe symptoms. Angelina Jolie, who carries the faulty BRCA1 ‘cancer’ gene, made the decision to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed earlier this year, at the age of 39, to reduce her risk of cancer (she’d previously had a double mastectomy for the same reason). “I am now in menopause. I will not be able to have any more children and I expect some physical changes,” the Hollywood star said afterwards. “But I feel at ease with whatever will come, not because I am strong but because this is a part of life. It is nothing to be feared.”

TO HRT OR NOT TO HRT?

OVER the last decade, there has been much debate about the possible risks and benefits of HRT (hormone replacement therapy), which helps relieve menopausal symptoms by replacing oestrogen. While it’s been suggested that HRT may be linked to an increased risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease, a draft policy being developed by British health authorities, for instance, stresses that menopausal women and healthcare professionals should understand that HRT doesn’t increase cardiovascular disease risk when started in women aged under 60, and doesn’t affect the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease either. In addition, the guidance states that HRT doesn’t affect the risk of dying from breast cancer, and that HRT with oestrogen alone is associated with little or no increase in the risk of breast cancer. HRT with oestrogen and progestogen can be associated with an increased risk. The policy document also stresses that any increase in breast cancer risk is related to treatment duration, and reduces after stopping HRT. Morris says only around 10-15 per cent of the women who could benefit from HRT are actually take it, observing: “That’s a personal choice, and I can understand why a lot of women think that after the age of 50, they’re not designed to live with hormones, but we’re not necessarily designed to live as long as we do, either. “HRT’s a choice that not many women make, and a lot of it’s due to news stories about HRT over the last 10 years or so. “It’s like any medicine – you’ve got to have a cautious approach, and make sure it’s the right drug for the right person at the right time. Nothing’s a cure-all, and you’ve really got to think hard about it. “When women reach a certain age and need medical treatment, it’s best to go and see someone and get advice about what’s best for you.”

ANY ALTERNATIVES?

SURVEYS have suggested that around 70 per cent of menopausal women try

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HEN a woman’s reproductive life comes to an end, she hits the menopause – or, to be more accurate, it hits her. On average, women start the menopause at 51, though it can begin much earlier (before the age of 40, it’s known as ‘premature menopause’), and it can bring with it a range of symptoms, from irregular periods, hot flushes and mood swings, to the brittle bone disease osteoporosis. In the years following the menopause, a woman’s heart disease risk rises too. Some women are lucky, only knowing they’ve been through ‘the change’ because their periods have stopped. But around 80 per cent experience symptoms to some degree, which typically continue for around four years after their last period, while for around 10 per cent, symptoms can go on for up to 12 years. However, although the menopause can have a huge effect on a woman – and her family – its effects are often underestimated by both medical professionals, and women themselves. In a bid to address this, the (NICE) has issued the first draft guidelines for health professionals who treat menopausal women. The guidelines, currently under public consultation with final drafts set to be published in October, include offering care that considers the woman’s symptoms and preferences, explaining menopause symptoms and stages, suggesting helpful lifestyle changes, discussing the benefits and risks of treatments, such as (HRT), and possibly offering cognitive behavioural therapy to help relieve anxiety. Professor Mark Baker, Centre for Clinical Practice director at NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the UK), says: “Menopause affects millions of women, and its symptoms can severely upset day-to-day life. The effects of menopause are often misunderstood and underestimated. “When women seek medical help for their symptoms, there is considerable variation in what is offered to them.”

“One woman may sail through the menopause with no problems,” says Mr Edward Morris, a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology, “whereas another woman even from the same family may have severe problems. The severity isn’t predictable.”

alternative remedies to help relieve their symptoms. Such remedies include phytoestrogens – plant substances that have effects similar to those of oestrogens – black cohosh, evening primrose oil and ginkgo biloba, as well as therapies like homeopathy, acupuncture and reflexology. Reports surrounding the effectiveness of such approaches are largely anecdotal; however, many women swear by them for minimising symptoms and improving quality of life. The British Menopause Society points out that there’s little scientific evidence that complementary and alternative therapies can help menopausal symptoms or provide the same benefits as conventional therapies, but Morris suggests: “They can make a difference, although sometimes it’s just the reassurance that the woman’s in control. In some women, the difference these remedies make is sustained, but in the vast majority the initial effect dwindles.”

from an osteoporosis point of view, as exercise can reduce the incidence of fractures, and getting the right amount of vitamins is good for the cardiovascular system and the bones.”

LIFESTYLE PLAYS A PART

LOSING weight can reduce the severity of hot flushes, notes Morris. “Women who are overweight have more severe hot flushes, so if you can lose weight, that makes a big difference,” he stresses. “Exercise and a healthy diet are good

Angelina Jolie made the decision to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed earlier this year. PHOTO: BRANCH/PATRICKMCMULLAN.COM/PA.

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On a wing and prayer Travelling with the kids will become one of their fondest memories z z z z z z z

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View from the plane window A TV in the hotel room A comfy bed A trip to a waterpark Ice cream Somewhere new to explore Making new friends

QUALITY HOLIDAYS

BY LISA SALMON F you’re about to jet off for your family holiday, you could be set to create happy memories that last a lifetime. But if you’re not careful, at least some of those memories might be unpleasant ones linked to managing restless young children on the flight.

ANGST IN THE AIR Nearly a quarter of parents who’ve travelled on planes with small children say it was a stressful experience, often because of other child-free passengers’ intolerant attitudes. Nursery accessories specialist Hippy Chick found that: z Nearly a third (32 per cent) of parents wouldn’t even entertain the thought of flying with youngsters because of the potential stress. z Of those who would fly with young children, nearly all (96 per cent) were worried about a squealing, squirming toddler who refuses to put on their seatbelt.

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z A whopping 60 per cent were unhappy with airline buggy regulations, which often mean parents have to leave buggies at the departure gate and get them back at baggage reclaim. z Another 64 per cent agreed airlines should be more flexible and generous with luggage allowances for families.

BE PREPARED However Catherine Cooper, author of Travelling With Children: A Parent’s Guide (published by Need 2 Know), insists going on a plane with kids really doesn’t have to be a nightmare. “I think it’s a real shame that so many parents say they wouldn’t even think of travelling by plane with children,” she says. “With a bit of organisation and planning, it really isn’t that bad.” She suggests: z Finding out if you can take your buggy to the aircraft door, and where you’ll get it back. Some airports have courtesy buggies to return you to the

Q; “My eight-week-old baby cries a lot and I seem to be either feeding her or picking her up constantly. What other ways can I calm her down?” A: Sarah Beeson, author of Happy Baby, Happy Family: Learning To Trust Yourself And Enjoy Your Baby (Harper Thorsons), says: “I’ve got three calming techniques for you to try that remind babies of the calm environment of the womb through motion and sound. “The Up-Down Technique is a forgotten baby-calming trick that recreates the weightlessness and comfort of being in the womb and

carousel. z If you’re going to be without your buggy, take a sling. z Use the opportunity provided by airlines to let families board first, and book a bassinet well in advance for babies on long-haul flights. z Take non-precious toys without small pieces for the flight, plus colouring or sticker books. z Make sure you’ve got nonmelting and non-sticky snacks for the kids. z Don’t worry about normal screen rules – if the kids want to watch films or Peppa Pig for the entire journey, let them. z Check with the airline about luggage allowances before you leave, and pack accordingly. z If you’re worried about anything, ask – you’ll find information quickly and easily from both airports and airlines via Twitter.

HOLIDAY MEMORIES If you successfully manage to avoid a stressful flight – or even if you don’t – you’re likely to create some fantastic holiday

can stop a baby crying in a couple of minutes or even a few seconds. “Stand up. Hold your baby with one hand under their bottom, placing your thumb and forefinger gently round their thigh and resting the baby’s head in the palm of your other hand. When your little one feels secure, move them up and down, slightly away from your body, using a rapid motion. You’ll usually find they’ll stop crying in moments. “Singing a lullaby or playing gentle music can really work wonders on some babies. You’ll soon learn what your baby likes to hear,

memories. Indeed, a new Family Holiday Association study found that half of adults questioned say their happiest memory is that of a holiday with their family. It also concluded smiling, laughing, experiencing things for the first time and being relaxed were key aspects of holiday memories.

Dr Scott McCabe, an associate professor of marketing and tourism, says what makes holidays so memorable is that they’re usually so different to normal everyday life. “Quality time is an important facet of holidays and because the experiences we gain are different everyday life events, they tend to stand out stronger in our memories,” he says. “As key milestones in people’s lives – like a first kiss, first love, and getting married – the many positive experiences associated with family holidays help us to construct a sense of a happy family that we look back on nostalgically through life.” And, Cooper adds: “Family holidays are usually when children get to spend quality time with their parents, away from the stresses of school runs, homework, and daily household chores, in a new place with things to explore and discover – what’s not to like?” asks Cooper. It really doesn’t matter if you’re in the Maldives or Melbourne, he says, in a five-star hotel or in a tent – “the benefits of a happy family holiday remain the same. Treat the trip as an adventure and the likelihood is your kids will too.”

KIDS’ HOLIDAY FAVOURITES It’s not just the grownups who enjoy being with their family on holiday – one airline discovered more than a quarter of children (27 per cent) aged six-12 years think spending lots of time with their family is one of the best things about their break. Children’s top 10 things about holiday were: z Not being at school z A nice swimming pool z Spending time with family

and if you sang and played music a lot while you were pregnant, it’s quite likely they’ll like those tunes best. “Making gentle, rhythmic shushing sounds will often help babies to relax. It stimulates the noises of blood pumping. From gently behind the ear, not into the ear, make low-level rhythmic shushing noises for a couple of minutes to calm your little one. “It’s important to use the calming techniques you feel comfortable with as a family. You’ll get there and you are the expert on your own baby.”

Travelling with Children: A Parent’s Guide by Catherine Cooper, published by Need 2 Know.

Happy Baby Happy Family by Sarah Beeson, published by Harper Thorsons.

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UNDER THE HOOD | WITH...

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Terry Locke

Roaring 20s 1927 is the year the Ford Motor Company turned off the assembly line for the Ford Model T, after manufacturing and selling 15 million of the iconic motor car. That same year it started instead selling the Model A, for a base price US$460. A 1927 Ford T Model Tudor sedan is here in Dubbo. As told to YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY. Photos by CONNOR-COMAN SARGENT Terry Locke, how did you come to own this car? Bob Bowman, a well-known hot-rodder in Australia on the Central Coast, brought it into Australia about 1971; a good friend (fellow rodder) purchased the body and many other parts for the build in the ‘90s. It’s a body unique to the USA. I bought it from him five u

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u and a-half years ago, as a registered and driving car, but I have done a lot of work on it; such as the interior trim, roof trim and much mechanical work. It has a Ford engine and auto trans(mission). What’s unique about this car? The body was flat packed. There are seams down the back of the car where the body unbolts. It dismantles like a jigsaw puzzle and you can unbolt into a million bits. It’s basically an early form of the horseless carriage. It’s a time when we were getting from horse and carriage days into internal combustion engines. I drove it everywhere as a 17 yearold kid. In ’75 it was only 40 years old. She turned 80 last year. They’ll last if they’re looked after. Henry Ford made them good in those days. What’s it made of? It has an all steel body, except the rear guards which are fibreglass. The only nonoriginal parts on it are the rear mudguards. They are fibreglass. They’ve been widened 50mm to get the wide tyres under it. I have the original rear mudguards in the shed. He couldn’t bring himself to bring a grinder through the originals. Are the big rear wheels original? The big wheels, little wheels are not standard. It’s designed like that to get the stance, what they call the rake to the front. That was also a thing for racing. Hot rodders in

Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015 | Dubbo Weekender the ‘40s and ‘50s were all about the speed. They used to race on the dry lakes in America at places like the Bonneville Salt Flats at Utah. It was all for the speed. Most of them they stripped down. For the hot rods, they chopped the roof and they’d take a section of the roof out and lower it down. It was all to cut down the wind resistance. Have you been to America to experience the hot rod culture there? It’s on the bucket list. Everything you see in hot rodding today stems back to the mid to late 40s. In America, the hot rod nationals have 22,000 cars. I’d like to go Bonneville Speed Week. To hear a car like mine go past at 250 miles per hour would be just something. ■

She turned 80 last year. They’ll last if they’re looked after. Henry Ford made them good in those days. – Terry Locke

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Feeling the heat in Wareing’s ‘Engine Room’ BY JEANANNE CRAIG ARCUS WAREING’S latest restaurant is slap bang in the middle of London’s Theatreland, but his kitchen is a drama-free zone. A former protege of the famously fiery Gordon Ramsay, the top chef has exacting standards and hasn’t been afraid to speak his mind in the past – in fact, he once left one UK MasterChef semi-finalist in tears, during a 2013 guest stint on the show. But the spotless kitchen of Tredwell’s, the West End restaurant Wareing opened last September, is an oasis of calm: all sparkling silver worktops, carefully filed away ingredients, and chefs quietly preparing for the busy evening ahead. Which all comes as a huge relief, because I’m about to cook for the Michelin-starred man himself. Before I get my apron on, Wareing admits he has mellowed in recent years – something the father-of-three puts down to professional happiness, and mastering the work-life balance.. TV show directors direct in a very different way to how chefs direct a kitchen, he notes. “They do it in such a calm manner. I’ve used and absorbed some of their expertise and calm direction to be able to create my own way of approaching my team.” As for his earlier appearances on the UK version of MasterChef, the the Southport-born chef smiles and confesses: “You’re asked to come onto a show, you’re

dragged out of the kitchen and put in a taxi, you’re still in service mode, you go into the studio and get a load of mediocre food put in front of you, you tell them what you think of it and you get in the car and go again. It happens so fast...” Wareing and Chantelle Nicholson, group operations director of his eateries (he has two other restaurants in the capital), patiently guide me through the prepping and cooking of the harissa-glazed aubergine starter, a popular choice at Tredwell’s. Thankfully, it’s a really simple dish to make (see recipe below) – slicing an aubergine, browning it on a hot plate, bunging it in the oven and then brushing on a glossy harissa and agave syrup mix. When it comes to plating up, however, I’m on my own, with no idea how the dish is usually presented. “Just imagine you’re hosting a dinner party and all your friends are there, waiting,” Wareing says with a grin. Is that a wicked glint I detect in those piercing blue eyes? As the heat in the kitchen builds up, I layer the aubergine slices before cack-handedly attempting to pipe some coconut yoghurt and sprinkling an overly generous helping of red chilli on top. Alas, my yoghurt has melted in no time (I laboured too long on that piping) and the aubergines look more slumped than stacked, but Wareing gamely tucks in as I look on, red-faced.

There’s “too much heat”, he says, because I’ve been too liberal with the harissa and red chilli, but overall, he seems happy enough with the taste. As for my sloppy presentation, he assures me that’s something I can brush up on. I don’t think I’ll be landing a job here any time soon (“I don’t think you’d want one, it’s quite hot in there!” Nicholson says diplomatically), and there’s no way my dish would have made the grade to be served to a customer. But I’m delighted all the same when Wareing, no doubt keen to get me out the door before the Friday night rush begins, jokingly tells me: “You’re through to the next round”. Fancy having a go? Here are three recipes from Tredwell’s by Marcus Wareing for you to try at home...

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Garden-Vegetable Omelette BY GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

RECIPE EXTRAS

A well-made omelette can be a quick supper or a satisfying breakfast. Mix up a batch of eggs, prepare your filling, and you’re ready for quick assembly-line production. Serves 4. Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 small onion, chopped 1 small (170g) zucchini, chopped 1 small yellow pepper, chopped

1 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper 2 ripe plum tomatoes, chopped 1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped 8 large eggs 1/2 cup water 4 teaspoons butter or margarine To prepare: 1. Prepare filling. In non-stick 10-inch skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add onion, zucchini, yellow pepper, 1/2 teaspoon salt and ground black pepper; cook until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in chopped plum tomatoes and basil, heat through. 2. In medium bowl, with wire whisk, beat eggs, water and 1/2 teaspoon salt.

3. In non-stick 10-inch skillet, melt 1 teaspoon butter over medium-high heat. Pour 1/2 cup egg mixture into skillet. Cook, gently lifting edge of eggs with heat-safe rubber spatula and tilting pan to allow uncooked eggs to run underneath, until eggs are set, about 1 minute. Spoon 1/4 of filling over half of omelette. Fold unfilled half of omelette over filling and slide onto warm plate. 4. Repeat with remaining butter, egg mixture and filling. If desired, keep omelettes warm in 200 F oven until all omelettes are cooked. Tip: For lower-fat omelettes, use four large eggs and eight egg whites. * Each serving: About 239 calories, 17g total fat (6g saturated), 14g protein, 7g carbohydrate, 435mg cholesterol, 749mg sodium.

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HARISSA-GLAZED AUBERGINE, COCONUT, PEANUT AND CORIANDER (Serves 2) 1 small aubergine, cut into 6 pieces lengthways 2tbsp rapeseed oil 1/2tsp sea salt For the Harissa Glaze: 50g rose harissa paste 30g agave syrup 20ml water 1tsp lemon juice Pinch sea salt For the dressing: 75g coconut yoghurt (try Co Yo Natural Coconut Milk Yoghurt, £3.49, Waitrose) 1/2 lime, zest and juice Pinch table salt To serve: 50g roasted, salted peanuts, roughly chopped Coriander cress (or fresh coriander) 1/4-1/2 red chilli, finely sliced Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas mark 4. Heat a char grill, char grill pan or griddle pan until hot. Brush the aubergine with the oil and season with the salt. Grill well on each side then place on a foil-lined tray and into the oven to finish cooking for 15 minutes. Mix the harissa paste, agave, water, lemon juice and salt together and set aside. Mix the yoghurt with the lime juice, zest and salt, set aside. Remove the aubergine from the oven and brush liberally with the harissa mix, then place back in the oven for five minutes. To serve, place the aubergine on a large plate and dot the yoghurt around, sprinkle with peanuts and chilli and garnish with the coriander.

CHICKEN LIVER MOUSSE WITH BACON JAM

Harissa glazed aubergine, peanuts, coriander and chilli as cooked by Jeananne Craig, with Tredwells restaurant owner Marcus Wareing at his restaurant, in Covent Garden, during a masterclass with him and his head chef, Chantelle Nicholson.

PULLED PORK SLIDERS

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Journalist Jeananne Craig (centre) with Tredwells restaurant owner Marcus Wareing at his restaurant, in Covent Garden, taking a masterclass with him and his head chef, Chantelle Nicholson.

(Makes 8 buns) 2kg pork belly For the mirepoix (flavouring): 25ml vegetable oil 1/2 onion, peeled and quartered 1 stalk celery, halved 1/2 leek, white only, halved 1 carrot, peeled and quartered 2 cloves garlic, bashed 1 cinnamon stick 1 star anise 1/2 orange, halved 1 red chilli, halved 1/4 bunch coriander stalks 40g fresh root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped For the cooking liquor: 125ml Madeira wine 1L chicken or vegetable stock 1tbsp soy sauce 2tbsp hoisin sauce 1tbsp honey To serve: 8 brioche buns 25g stem ginger in syrup, finely sliced 1/2 Granny Smith apple, finely sliced Heat a large pan with the vegetable oil. Add the mirepoix ingredients and brown well. Add the cooking liquor and the pork belly and bring to a very gentle simmer. Cover and allow to cook slowly for three hours. Remove the belly and set aside to cool slightly. Strain off the stock and place the liquid in a pan and bring to the boil. Simmer until reduced by half. Gently pull the pork belly apart using two forks and mix with enough of the reduced sauce to bind together. Heat up enough for eight buns. For the buns, cut in half and toast the inside. Add the pork belly then the sliced ginger and finely sliced apple. Serve.

(Makes 6-8 servings) For the mousse marinade: 250g chicken livers – sinew trimmed off 50g milk Dash of brandy Pinch of pink salt For the infusion: 1 shallot, chopped 1/2 clove garlic, chopped 80ml Madeira wine 80ml port 25ml brandy 5g salt 2 sprigs of thyme 1 bay leaf To add during cooking: 110ml milk 40g unsalted butter, melted 35g single cream For the Bacon Jam: 2tbsp vegetable oil 250g smoked streaky bacon, minced 1 small onion, peeled and diced 1 clove garlic, minced 1tbsp tomato puree 1tbsp sherry vinegar 4 coriander seeds, toasted and crushed 1tbsp black treacle 1tsp smoked paprika 1/2tsp black pepper For the mousse, place all the ingredients for the marinade in an airtight container, cover and leave for 24 hours. For the infusion, place all ingredients in a small saucepan and bring to a gentle simmer until most of the liquid has reduced. Remove the bay leaf and thyme, cover and set aside. Once the chicken livers have soaked, strain them off, discarding the liquid. Pre-heat your oven to 80C/175F and place a large roasting pan full of water inside. Once the water has reached 80C, place the livers, infusion and second measure of milk into an ovenproof dish that will fit into the roasting pan inside in the oven. Cover with foil and place in the water bath in the oven for five minutes. Remove from the water, rest for five minutes, then blend using a blender or hand blender with the melted butter and cream, until smooth. Check the seasoning and if OK, pass through a fine sieve and into a container. Cover the surface of the parfait with cling film, rather than the container, and place in the fridge until cool. Place into a cream whipper, gas with one cartridge and shake well (the parfait can be served as it is if you do not have a cream whipper, but it will be slightly runnier). For the bacon jam, heat a large pan with the vegetable oil. When hot, add the bacon, onions and garlic and cook until the liquid has reduced. Add the remaining ingredients and simmer gently until thick. Remove and chill until needed.

Patio Potato Salad BY HEALTHY EXCHANGES A great potato salad recipe that doesn’t make too much. This way, you don’t have to worry about “leftovers.” Ingredients: 1/4 cup fat-free mayonnaise 1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish 1/2 teaspoon country-style Dijon mustard 1 full cup diced cooked potatoes 3/4 cup finely chopped celery 1/4 cup finely chopped onion

To prepare: In a small bowl, combine mayonnaise, pickle relish and mustard. Add potatoes, celery and onion. Mix well to combine. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Gently stir again just before serving. Makes 2 (1 cup) servings. * Each serving equals: 124 calories, 0g fat, 3g protein, 28g carb., 406mg sodium, 2g fibre; Diabetic Exchanges: 1/2 Starch/Carb., 1 Vegetable.

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Use your loaf

Eric Kayser. PHOTO: PA/KAYSER.

A bread guru shares his secrets BY JEANANNE CRAIG ATCHING French baker Eric Kayser at work in the kitchen, it’s easy to see why he didn’t consider any other career options in his

youth. The bread guru deftly cuts dough into small sections before rolling them into perfect little batards (like a baguette, but shorter), then presses an already-baked one to listen for that familiar crispy sound, explaining: “You want to hear the music.” A fifth generation baker growing up in the FrancheComte region, Kayser loved spending time in his father’s bakery. “As soon as I started to speak, I said to my family, ‘I want to be a baker and travel’,” the red-headed boulanger recalls. “Coming from a small village, people thought I was crazy, but I repeated it when I was 10 years old, I repeated it I was 14 years old. And now, I do it.” Kayser opened his first bread shop in Paris in 1996, and these days, he jets around the world to open new bakeries and “bring a love of French bread to people who have never tasted it”. He’s currently promoting his new book, The Larousse Book Of Bread (containing more than 80 mouth-watering recipes), and passing on some of his expert tips on creating the perfect brioche, baguette or bagel. Making bread isn’t easy, but with simple equipment and good ingredients (“the most important thing”), something delicious can be created, according to Kayser. “If you have a small mixer, a good oven and your hands, it will be OK. And a good brain!” With all that kneading and proofing, however, baking bread from scratch isn’t something most people can factor into their busy lives. But giving it a go once a week – or even once a month – is fine, says Kayser. “You can do your bread or your brioche with your children, with your husband or wife, with your family, and afterwards you can share it,” the fatherof-two adds. “I think it’s something very religious, because we hear for a long time that we need to share the bread. It’s fantastic, it’s a good experience and it’s good for you to work with your hands.” And if the end result is an underdone or burnt-to-acrisp disaster? “Patience is very important, and you can start again. All your life you need to be patient. If you want to do something, you need to do it a few times and understand how it will be,” he says. As the smell of freshly-baked bread fills the air, Kayser explains that he views the baker as an alchemist. “You work with a few ingredients from the ground – flour, water, yeast – to do something beautiful.” And biting into the delicious end result, it’s hard to disagree. Want to have a try at home? Here are three of Kayser’s recipes. The liquid sourdough starter is used as an ingredient in the batard and pumpernickel recipes, although dry sourdough starter can also be used.

Kansas City Ribs

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Baby Back Ribs with a gooey tomatobased sauce are an American tradition, whether you enjoy them as a main dish or serve them as an appetizer. What you’ll need Ribs 3 racks pork baby back ribs (about 450g each) 1 onion, cut into quarters 1 orange, cut into quarters 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns 1 tablespoon whole coriander seeds Barbecue Sauce 3 tablespoons margarine or butter

1 medium onion, chopped 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 can (425g) tomato sauce 1/4 cup cider vinegar 1/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper To prepare: 1. Prepare ribs: In 8-quart saucepot, place ribs, onion, orange, peppercorns, coriander and enough water to cover; heat to boiling over high heat. Reduce heat to low; partially cover and cook 50 minutes to 1 hour or until ribs are fork-tender. Transfer ribs to platter. If

not serving right away, cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Serves 6. 2. Meanwhile, prepare barbecue sauce: In 2-quart saucepan, heat margarine over medium heat until melted. Add onion and garlic and cook 8 minutes or until softened, stirring occasionally. Add tomato sauce, vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper; heat to boiling over high heat. Reduce heat to low; simmer 40 minutes or until thickened, stirring occasionally. Makes about 2 2/3 cups. O Each serving: About 380 calories, 24g protein, 9g carbohydrate, 27g total fat (9g saturated), 58mg cholesterol, 520mg sodium.

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LIQUID SOURDOUGH STARTER (Makes about 500g/4 cups) 140g (scant 1 1/2 cup) organic light, medium, or dark rye flour 240g (1 cup) water at 86F (30C) temperature 10g clear honey (or malt) 100g (generous 3/4 cup) all-purpose (plain) flour DAY 1 Use a spatula to mix 20g (1/4 cup) rye flour with 20g (4 teaspoons) water in a bowl, then add 5g (3/4 teaspoon) clear honey. Cover with a clean cloth and leave for 24 hours in a warm place. If the starter curdles, begin again. DAY 2 Bubbles will have formed on the surface. In a larger container, mix together 40g (scant 1/2 cup) rye flour, 40g (2 2/3 tablespoons) water, and 5g (3/4 teaspoon) clear honey. Stir in the mix from the first day. This is called “feeding” or “refreshing” the starter. Cover with a cloth and leave to ferment for 24 hours. DAY 3 The mixture will be bubbling noticeably. Mix 80g (3/4 cup) rye flour and 80g (generous 2/3 cup) water in a larger bowl. Blend in the mix from the second day. Cover with a cloth and leave to ferment for 24 hours. DAY 4 To the third day’s mix, add the all-purpose (plain) flour and 100g (scant 1/2 cup) water. Stir well. Your starter is now ready to use. It will have the consistency of thick pancake batter. Store it in a glass jar, lightly covered, but so that air can get to the starter. (If you plan to keep it for some time, it should be stored airtight in the refrigerator.)

The Larousse Book Of Bread: Recipes To Make At Home, by Eric Kayser, is published by Phaidon.

BATARD (Makes 3 batards, each about 300g) Timings: Mixing & kneading: 10min First rising: 1h 30min Resting: 30min Proofing: 1h 30min Baking: 20min Ingredients 500g (4 cups) all-purpose (plain) flour, plus extra for dusting 330g (1 1/3 cups) water at 68F (20C) 100g (scant 1/2 cup) liquid sourdough starter (or 25g/3tbsp dry sourdough starter) 3g (1tsp) fresh baker’s yeast, crumbled 10g (2tsp) salt If kneading in a stand mixer: Put all the ingredients in the bowl. Knead with the dough hook for four minutes at slow speed, then for six minutes at high speed. If kneading by hand: Put the flour on a work surface or in a mixing bowl and make a large well in the centre. Add half the water, then add the starter, fresh yeast, and salt. Mix well, then add the remaining water and blend until all the flour is incorporated. Knead the dough until it becomes smooth and elastic. To prepare: Shape the dough into a ball and cover with a damp cloth. Leave to rise for 1 hour 30 minutes. It will have increased in volume by the end of the rising time. Dust the work surface. Divide the dough into three equal pieces and shape them into balls. Cover with a damp cloth and leave to rest for 30 minutes. Working with one piece of dough at a time, use the palm of your hand to flatten it gently into a rough oval. With the long side facing you, fold in a third towards the centre and press along the edge with your fingertips. Swivel the dough 180 degrees. Fold in the other long edge so that it overlaps in the centre and press with your fingertips. Fold one half on top of the other, and seal the edges together with the heel of your hand. With lightly floured hands, roll the dough out to form a plump oval, slightly tapered at each end. Shape the other two loaves the same way. Place the loaves, seams underneath, on a baking sheet lined with parchment (baking) paper. Cover with a damp cloth and leave to proof for 1 hour 30 minutes. Place another baking sheet on the bottom shelf of the oven and preheat to 450F (230C). Score each loaf once, lengthwise. Just before putting the loaves in the oven, pour an extra 50g (scant 1/4 cup) of water onto the preheated baking sheet. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave to cool on a wire rack.

PUMPERNICKEL (Makes two loaves, each about 615g) Timings: Mixing & kneading: 8min First rising: 1hr Proofing: 16-20hrs Baking: 6hrs Ingredients 300g (2 cups) dark rye flour 150g (1 1/4 cups) all-purpose (plain) flour 50g (generous 1/4 cup) pre-cooked bulgur wheat 500g (generous 2 cups) water at 80F (25C) 120g liquid sourdough starter (or 25g/2tbsp dry sourdough starter) 10g (2tsp) salt 60g (1/4 cup) clear honey 40g (1/4 cup) mixed seeds (anise, coriander, fennel, and caraway) Butter for greasing To prepare: You will need two loaf pans with sliding lids, each 6 1/2 x 3 x 3 inches (17 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm). Alternatively, use ordinary loaf pans, although you won’t get the same oblong shape. If kneading in a stand mixer: Put the two flours, bulgur wheat, water, starter, salt and honey in the bowl. Knead with the dough hook for four minutes at low speed, then for four minutes at high speed. Add the mixed seeds towards the end of the kneading time, and knead until the mixture is creamy. If kneading by hand: Put the two flours and the bulgur wheat in a mixing bowl and make a large well in the centre. Pour in half the water, starter, salt and honey. Mix well, then add the remaining water and knead until all the flour is incorporated. Add the mixed seeds and knead until the mixture is creamy. Cover the bowl with a damp cloth and leave the dough to rest for one hour. It will have increased in volume by the end of the rising time. Butter the loaf pans and their lids. Fill them two-thirds full with the dough and smooth the surface. Close the lids and leave to proof for 16-20 hours, by which time the dough will have expanded to almost fill the pans. Preheat the oven to 230F (110C). Make sure the lids are on securely and bake for six hours. Remove from the oven, turn out the loaves, and leave to cool on a wire rack.

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1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen whole-kernel corn 1/8 teaspoon black pepper

Serves 4 (1 cup each) "I'm from Iowa. That's where the tall corn grows!" In case you didn't know our 'almost official' state song, you do now. But we aren't stingy. We'll gladly share a few ears of our sweet corn, so you, too, can enjoy this wonderful dish. What you’ll need 3 cups fresh or frozen cut green beans 1/2 cup finely chopped onion 1 full cup diced extra-lean ham 1 cup diced raw potatoes 2 cups water

To prepare: 1. In a large skillet, combine green beans, onion, ham, potatoes and water. Cover and cook over medium-low heat for 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender. 2. Stir in corn and black pepper. Continue cooking for 10 minutes, uncovered, or until corn is tender and most of the liquid is evaporated, stirring occasionally. O Each serving: About 145 calories, 1g fat, 10g protein, 24g carb., 367mg sodium, 3g fibre; Diabetic Exchanges: 1 1/2 Vegetable, 1 Starch, 1 Meat.

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In the jungle BY GABRIELLE FAGAN Y embracing tropical style you can conjure your very own exotic sanctuary, and sit back and bask in paradise all year long. Think jungle foliage murals and wallpapers, scorched earth colours like red russet, deep fuchsia pink and glowing orange, reminiscent of holiday evening sunsets. Add to the illusion of that sunbaked setting with fashionable fun touches, from pineapple lamps to cactus vases and perching parrots. Granted, there’s a retro, kitsch feel to this decor style, but interpreted in a modern way – less is more is certainly the rule here – you can rest assured this is truly on-trend. Here’s how to harvest glow-

ing rooms, where the barometer’s always set on sunny...

CACTUS COLOURS Conjure an oasis of calm with lush foliage and an array of exotic birds. “The big leaf tropical look was originally made popular by Don Loper at his Beverly Hills Hotel in 1942, and this style of leafy wallpaper has since then become one of the most recognisable wall coverings in the world. Currently there’s a huge demand for that type of aesthetic,” says designer Robin Sprong, who creates wallpapers featuring incredible imagery, including garden and jungle scenes. “Our Crazy Banana wallpaper range aims to reflect its origins,

Turn water bottles into stylish bangles BY DONNA ERICKSON

CREATIVE FAMILY FUN

IF you drinking lots of water, there’s probably an empty plastic water bottle in a cup holder in your car, on your bicycle or perhaps an almost-empty one in front of you as you are reading this. Before you toss that bottle into your recycle bin, reclaim it! Repurpose it! Use it to make hip and stylish bangle bracelets with your preteen-age daughter and her friends. This nod to haute couture will not only save you money, but your own budding designers will enjoy wearing the ban-

while reflecting those trend shades of greens, emeralds and gemstones, so that it’s highly sophisticated yet very retro, and brings the foliage of the garden and jungle indoors.” SHOP THE LOOK: Look for a striking wallpaper with a Forest theme; some are so realistic you’d swear you could step into its rich green jungle landscape. Then there’s Jungle Print wallpaper that features palm leaves, parrots, monkeys and a toucan. If those are too hot and steamy, simply make a statement with paint. Look for a Luscious Lime. Surround yourself with appropriate accessories, such as a Metro chair, or Jungle Plates adorned with cockatoos, pelicans, parrots and toucans, or Ceramic Cactus Vases, a Colour-

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gles. When someone asks, “Where did you get your bracelet?” it’s fun to answer with a grin, “From a water bottle!” As you take that last sip out of your water bottle, I hope you’ll be curious enough to say to yourself “What about a bangle? What about a water bottle bangle?”

Let’s get started: First, remove the label from a standard 500ml-size plastic water bottle. Cut a 2.5cm-wide plastic loop for each bangle. To help you get started with the cutting, poke a hole into the plastic with a pushpin. Remove it, then guide the sharp point of a scissor into the hole and begin cutting around the bottle. If your

bottle has a circular groove in it, use it as a guide. Here are some ideas for distinctive designs to express your style and personality:

Friendship Bangle: Arrange small cut-out photos of faces of friends in a horizontal row in the middle of the sticky side of a 20cm length of clear packing tape. Carefully wrap it around the outside of the bangle. Press excess tape on each edge over the bangle to the inside to hold it in place.

Tip: If you are having a birthday or slumber party, take a photo of all the guests

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Refresh your palette with a cocktail of citrus shades and quirky, fruit-themed accessories. Summer may be a little way off, but “we’ve been enjoying the heat in interiors trends all year. There’s a trend for bright neons and sunshine yellow accents in interiors and fabrics; wallcoverings and accessories take on a tropical theme,” says Katharine Maclaverty, co-founder of a home accessories business. “Think banana leaf pattern, pineapple decorations, kitsch flamingo prints and decorations, palm tree lamps and exotic ornamental birds. Go all out and create Hollywood mid-century glamour, with statement pieces, bold jungle prints, fun tropical accessories and a liberal smattering of warm gold metallics. “The Seventies revival in fashion is mirrored in interiors, and with it has come the trend for indoor gardening, cacti, succulents and terrariums. The modern way to pull off this look is with natural materials – think reclaimed wood and stone – copper accents and a largely monochrome base. Don’t break out with orange shagpile carpet just yet though – Tropicalia is the inspiration, but you don’t want to recreate Elvis’s jungle room!” SHOP THE LOOK: Items to look out for include Crazy Banana Sunset wallpaper with splashes of orange and yellow. This look encourages relaxation and zoning out, and there’s no easier way to do that than by lolling in a hammock. For a more conven-

Orange Camel Cushion

tional look, stretch out on a super squishy sofa, upholstered in burnt orange cotton velvet. Give rooms a fruity outlook too. Pineapples currently rule in decor – there’s Pineapple Lamps, or the Palm Table Lamp with Gold Base is truly decadent and wouldn’t look out of place in any luxurious, desert hideaway. Complete the scene with an Orange Camel Cushion, and a Pink Paradise Framed Print featuring a sweet flamingo.

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Generate a frisson of heat with hot pinks and deep reds mixed with tropical blooms. “Paint like no one is watching! Don’t be afraid to mix it up with tropical shades that buzz with life and re-create the jungle fever at home,” says Marianne Shillingford, creative director at Dulux “Choose colours which are clean, fresh and highly lightreflective, like Luscious Lime, Sunny Savannah 6, Jamaican Ginger, Floral Bunch and Chartreuse Charm... “Use blocks of colour, so popular on the fashion catwalk, to lead you on a path from one area to another in your home, with the brightest colours in the destination zones like the living room and kitchen, where you strike camp, gather with friends and relax.” SHOP THE LOOK: Conjure a sanctuary bedroom where the ocean could be a step away, by putting up plantation style window shutters and dressing a bed in exotic flower print bedding. Or bring on the tropical birds cushions and prints.

Dulux Feature Wall collection’s Luscious Lime.

Jungle Print Wallpaper

Jungle Plates

Two Pink Hummingbirds Cushion

Metro chair

Pudding Sofa Pineapple design

Pink Paradise Framed Print featuring a sweet flamingo

La Siesta Hammock

Melamine Tall Cup With Vintage Budgie Print

Ceramic Cactus Vases

standing in a row with heads at the same height. Print out a copy of the picture on your computer for each person, trim and wrap around the outside of a bangle. Cover and secure in place with clear tape. Add mini charms, if you wish.

Painted Bangle: Paint the inside and outside of the plastic with acrylic paint. When dry, add a coat of non-toxic varnish to protect the paint. Make designs on the outside with glitter paint.

Jewelled Bangle: Glue shiny fabric to the outside. Glue ribbon or trim, and add craft gems.

Forest collection wallpaper

Pineapple Lamp

Palm Table Lamp Gold Base

NOW HERE’S A TIP BY JOANN DERSON z I have stained coffee cups. My hands have arthritis, and it’s hard to wash them by hand. A young woman at church suggested I purchase a small bottle of dishwasher soap, even though I don’t have a dishwasher. I squirt a little in the cup and add hot water. It sits while I wash up the other dishes, and then swishes right out. The stains are gone. – Contributed by T.T. z Check your area to see if TAFEs or other training schools offer low-cost or free auto re-

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pairs. Sometimes you can have work done for the cost of parts so that students can be trained on your issue. – Contributed by R.E. z For the summer, I fill a gymsize duffel bag with “spontaneity supplies” and keep it in the boot of my car. It includes swimsuits for all family members, a blanket and cups, plates and silverware for a picnic. Now if we find we have some unexpected free time, we can go to the beach or pool, or have a picnic by just picking up some sandwich supplies from the closest grocery store! – Contributed via e-mail z You can use a clean paper milk

carton to pour batter for pancakes. The spout makes it easy to pour and reduces splatter. z I got tired of always looking for the dustpan and brush, and so I put a magnet on the back of it. It sticks right on the side of the fridge, right next to the broom. – Contributed by L.M. z Avoid eye strain by making sure your computer monitor is in the correct position. It should be placed directly in front of you, at least an arm’s length away. If you have trouble seeing the screen, adjust the resolution to make the screen items bigger.

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Jazz jams: intimate and free A celebration of jazz in this city is 25 years young and youth is the dominating theme of the anniversary weekend. It’s out with the old and in with the new as younger audiences are invited to brunch, lunch and fireside to the sounds of rockabilly, jug, hokum blues and more, and, maybe give a little toward a concerted effort to nurture young jazz musicians.

Jordan C Thomas will play at Lazy River Estate. PHOTO: SUPPLIED BY DUBBO JAZZ

BY YVETTE AUBUSSONFOLEY OURBON Street, New Orleans – it’s the birthplace of jazz, with one foot firmly planted in slave drums and rhythms from Africa and the other in the lofty horns and pianos of Europe. Synonymous with freedom and a little bit of anarchy, today the music style filters into multiple genres and Dubbo Jazz has always known it. This year however the annual nod, which celebrates its quarter century, is focused on Dubbo’s jazz future. Different venues will host local and out-of-town jazz bands playing at the Quality Inn Dubbo, Lazy River Estate, the Outlook Café, the Monkey Bar, Commercial Hotel and the Macquarie Conservatorium between August 7 and 9. No longer the domain of the usual venues, a fresh approach has been given to the programming to appeal to a younger audience in search of something new. “I was probably the first generation where rock meant more than jazz. As a kid it seemed like every party there seemed to be jazz and every function there was a jazz band. That was the social form,” says Greg Marginson, president of Dubbo Jazz. “It’s different now but there

are lots of young players playing jazz and it is a likeable form of music. One band we’re bringing is Jordan C Thomas. He’s in his early 20s, much more rockabilly jazz. He has a 1950s Gibson guitar and a very smooth voice and he has a backup band with a double bass and drums, and one brass.” Jordan C Thomas performs throughout Sydney and the Blue Mountains and is recognised as an up and coming band with the band members drawn from various influences. Encouraging jazz music appreciation and practice in Dubbo’s youth has prompted Dubbo Jazz to launch a fundraising effort in memory of group founder, Geoff De la Lande who died in 2013. The Geoff De la Lande Scholarship will support the tuition

We’re looking forward to introducing the local audience to jazz sounds as diverse at smooth mainstream through to pre-war trad and hokum jug music.” – Greg Marginson, president of Dubbo Jazz

of a brass or other player with a willingness to play jazz music in Dubbo. “I see students at the Con (Macquarie Conservatorium) and the only way we’re going to encourage an interest in jazz is to appeal to young people. “For us this weekend is about presenting this sort of music and making sure young people have access to it. “Remember Mojo Juju? Mojo Juju who’s sort of a gypsy, rockabilly? She’s like a female Elvis. She’s had two ABC albums now. She cut her teeth on the Dubbo jazz festival. Maybe she wouldn’t be where she is today if she hadn’t had that opportunity,” says Marginson. “For the scholarship we are seeking individual contributions of $25 or more and sponsor contributions of $100 or more to make this concept a reality. If a few people together make a reasonable contribution then we will accumulate enough to fund the scholarship for three years or more,” he says. Except for food and drink costs, the weekend is free with no admission charges along with pop-up performances on the Saturday around Dubbo. “We’re looking forward to introducing the local audience to jazz sounds as diverse at smooth mainstream through to pre-war trad and hokum jug music.” ■

Dubbo Jazz 25th Weekend of Jazz program FRIDAY, AUGUST 7 l 6pm-9pm 25th Free Weekend Welcome (David Harvey jazz guitar and The Chalkies), The Monkey Bar Lower Wingewarra St. Dinner bookings: 02 6884 4949 enquiry@themonkeybar.com.au

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8 l 10am-1pm Dubbo Ignite Cyril Flood Rotunda Jazz Free (Tin Roof Big Band, Honey Drippin’ Mudskippers, and more), cnr Church and Macquarie Sts. l 12noon-2.30pm Lazy Jazz Lunch $50pp New Orleans themed (Jordan C Thomas Band), Lazy River Estate 29R Old Dubbo Rd. Bookings essential: 6882 2111 events@lazyriverestate.com.au l 6pm-8pm Reflections Dinner Jazz (David Harvey jazz guitar), Reflections Restaurant, Quality Inn 165 Whylandra St. Reservations: 6882 4777 reservations@qualityinndubbo.com.au l 8.30pm-11pm Free Fireside Party Jazz Jam (Come along and play!), Quality Inn 165 Whylandra St. Beer, cocktails, finger food and fireside jazz

SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 l 10am-12noon Sunday Jazz Brunch (Jordan C Thomas Solo), Outlook Café Western Plains Cultural Centre, 76 Wingewarra St. Reservations: 02 6884 7977 For more information visit www.dubbojazz.com.au

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THE COWLEY LITERARY AWA R D

Doing the Splits BY LORRAINE COOK HE closes her eyes as she sips her hot coffee and remembers a time long ago. She was five years old. A thin little girl whose legs ached on frosty mornings, despite the thick stockings and warm shoes her mother dressed her in. She would often huddle in the recesses of the brick building that was her school, trying to keep out of the freezing wind, waiting for the doors to be open. When they did, she would race in with the others, feeling instant relief from the bitterness outside. She was tall for her age with dark hair and eyes. Her skin was a pale coffee colour and in London, in 1964, it was this colouring that earned her the name Blackie. After this new Christening, she quickly learned to be the last in line so the girls couldn’t lift up her petticoat and skirt again, asking “Is your bum brown too?” As a young child, she didn’t question the way of things and she was unaware of her quiet acceptance of them, simply because she had known no other way of life. When she was not chosen to be an angel in the Christmas play or any role for that matter, she accepted her teacher’s reasoning that angels had blonde hair and blue eyes, without hesitation. She was never chosen to answer questions in class, despite putting her hand up every day. She loved learning however, and for the next three years of her life, she listened to all that was taught with great joy and would lose herself in the little story books provided. How she loved the teacher’s pink wand, which, when pointed at a little word, would add a magic “e”, changing the sound of the word completely. She would put her hand up every time, hoping and hoping, for a chance to point that wand but was never chosen. Her little sister started school and on her first day was distraught. They were placed at a canteen table at lunchtime, by themselves, with a plate each of mashed potatoes, peas and a stinking

Lorraine Cook’s Doing the Splits is a tale of false love, empty dreams and the agony of healing that caught the judges’ imagination – Weekender hopes you enjoy the work of this week’s finalist from the 2015 Cowley Literary Award’s non-fiction category.

and learned about Australian coins and piece of black liver. Her sister was crying and could not be comforted. The lunch new, strange animals. There was a fancy dress party for all the children and hour went by slowly and eventually they everyone won a prize. She had a birthwere the last children left. The teacher day party with a huge cake covered with on duty told them, “You two will stay pink and white flowers, made especially here until your plates are clean. Hurry for her. up!” She kissed her little sister, asking She stood on the deck one day with her not to cry anymore and swallowed her father. He told her that they were some of the vegetables off her sister’s sailing through a canal called the Suez plate so that she would be allowed to and pointing to one desert, told her to leave. The smell of the liver made her look at Egypt. The other side, he said, gag and she thought they would remain was Arabia. He put a one pound note there for ever and ever and ever. She into her hand for spending cried. Then suddenly and on the ship but a hot gust unbelievably, two words of wind snatched it from spoken by the teacher her small fingers and she made them jump for joy! watched it flutter into the “Get out.” water below. Shortly afterwards, they This second How she loved meeting were put together for a King Neptune when he school photo. She had no split was a came out of the sea, with comb, so to flatten down gradual thing, shells and starfish glita stubborn curl on her sistering on his beard. Her ter’s forehead she used like a butterfly mother told her they were her spit. She still has that emerging from crossing an invisible line photo, showing two little called The Equator and girls smiling sweetly for its cocoon. Her although invisible, she the camera, tears drying young woman’s looked for it on the water in their eyes. anyway. On her last day at that mind filtered out She dearly loved her small school she was final- the perceptions first school in Australia. ly chosen to hold the pink Although she held her litwand and although the of her childhood tle sister’s hand tightly other children were not and stored them and walked home quickly, interested and the teachas she was used to doing, er hurried her up, she felt all in a treasure there was no name calllike a princess. Her dream chest inside her ing, no taunting and no had come true. being. kicks or punches from the The first slip happened children. She remembers as quickly as a thundertelling her mother about Blinky Bill and clap. Her parents were taking their famhow she loved him. ily to start a new life in a far- away place Memories spin into gentle whirlwinds called Australia. She helped her mother pack her doll and her “Etch-a-Sketch”. and the years turned quickly inside them. Her first fountain pen was used Being so young, she did not know about to write her poems, but because she Australia having an all-white policy at was a little shy, she could not read them the time and was surprised when she out loud. School projects were comwas interviewed by a man in an office pleted, songs were sung and birthday to see if she could speak English, the parties were attended. Bikes were ridonly language she knew. The voyage to den, cubby houses were built, skipping Australia was an adventure, full of unropes twirled and hula hoops shone and imaginable fun and happiness. She attended a play school on board through all this sunshine of youth, she

grew up. This second split was a gradual thing, like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon. Her young woman’s mind filtered out the perceptions of her childhood and stored them all in a treasure chest inside her being. Shortly after her 21st birthday, wearing a dress made from satin and Chantilly lace, she married a monster. It was an insidious union to begin with, full of false love and empty dreams but soon developed into violence and hatred towards her. She remembers the pain and betrayal, enveloping her completely, like a grey and frightening mist, ever present and dangerous. Her mind felt the beatings more than her body and through her suffering, mental cracks began to form allowing depression and psychosis to trickle in. Long after she divorced him, she battled a new kind of monster called mental illness, his cruel legacy to her. She existed in a surreal world of horror and despair, surrounded by bleeding, crucified angels on the walls and unimaginably ugly creatures that clung to the ceiling. Children whispered and giggled in the night and abusive voices kept her from sleeping. She endured it all for years and then the third split happened. While recovering in one of her many stays in hospital, the mist that surrounded her gently lifted and her eyes and mind regained their clarity. She grew stronger and confident without the chains of bitterness, fear or hate and her recovery on that long journey to being whole again had begun. She places her now empty coffee cup in her kitchen sink, walks over to the mirror and gazes at her middle aged face. Same colouring but with a sprinkle of freckles on her nose and cheeks, from the heat of so many Australian summers. She knows who she is. She is herself. Smiling at her reflection, she recalls the name of an old “Fatboy Slim” album which makes her smile even more. “You’ve come a long way, baby.” ■

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The Watchmaker’s fictitious plot is rooted in history BY KATE WHITING THE BOOKCASE

BOOK OF THE WEEK The Watchmaker Of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley is published in hardback by Bloomsbury Circus. OPENING the frankly gorgeous cover of this debut by Natasha Pulley – a steampunk-inspired green and gold design of cogs and clockwork – I had high hopes for the Victorian-era novel. And I was not disappointed. The fictitious plot is rooted in history: specifically, an Irish nationalist bomb attack on Scotland Yard in 1884. Home Office telegraphist Thaniel Steepleton narrowly avoids the blast, after being alarmed by a pocket watch that mysteriously appeared in his home, and sets out to find the watchmaker to discover if he is linked to the terrorists. Drawn out of his civil service routine to observe the Filigree Street-dwelling Keita Mori, Thaniel finds himself moving towards a future that frightens and entrances him with its possibilities – but how much can he trust the lonely Japanese immigrant? Pulley weaves references to events in both Britain and Japan in the late 1800s, into a rather fantastical plot involving a cross-dressing woman studying “ether” at Oxford University and a quasi-sentient clockwork octopus. This works so well that often I found myself researching locations and policies to check which were real: yes, London did have a miniature Japanese village built in Hyde Park and yes, Scotland Yard really was blown up. The author’s time in Japan pays off with elegant, well-observed descriptions of a foreign culture, while equal rights, burgeoning scientific developments and clashes of the English class system are all touched upon. However, Pulley’s light narrative style never feels preachy or pulled down by these serious subjects. Her small set of characters develop well from their initial sketchiness and, surprisingly, the expected stuffy speech of the Victorian era is ignored for a more modern vernacular, making

it very easy to read. Its tight plot trots along perhaps too much like clockwork, with everything tied up a little too neatly at the end, but that’s a small criticism for a first novel. 9/10 (Review by Natalie Bowen)

FICTION West Of Sunset by Stewart O’Nan is published in hardback by Allen & Unwin. IN 2013, a typed original manuscript of a minor Scott Fitzgerald story, complete with the author’s handwritten notes, sold at auction for over 100,000 US dollars. This would have seemed a bitter irony to the man himself who, despite acclaim in his own lifetime for works like The Great Gatsby, spent much of his last years struggling to keep his head above a boiling sea of personal troubles. West Of Sunset focuses on these last, darkly difficult years. Wife Zelda, once the dazzling incarnation of the Jazz Age, now languishes in an asylum, physically wasted and prone to mania and psychosis. Daughter Scottie’s school fees are a constant burden, and mistress Sheilah struggles to tolerate his alcoholism. At the studio, where he toils as a scriptwriter, Fitzgerald’s best work is rewritten by hacks, and jobs come – and especially, go – at the whim of the indifferent, all-powerful producers. O’Nan has written a wonderfully intimate and gently absorbing book. It inhabits an era and a fine mind with great care, folding in details of Fitzgerald’s life with subtle, unhurried sympathy. The result is a portrait of grace under pressure, of a kind of moral courage very different to the macho antics of the writer’s great rival, Hemingway. Great title too. 8/10 (Review by Dan Brotzel) Black Rabbit Hall by Eve Chase is published in hardback by Michael Joseph. LORNA and her fiance Jon are in Cornwall, looking at wedding venues. When they stop at Pencraw Hall (aka Black Rabbit Hall), Lorna knows immediately that this is where she wants to get married, despite it being almost derelict and having no wedding licence.

For some reason, it seems familiar; she has a vague recollection of coming here as a child with her adopted mother. Jon is less keen on the venue, but in an effort to learn more about Pencraw Hall and persuade him to change his mind, Lorna accepts an invitation from the eccentric owner, Mrs Alton, to stay for a weekend. Gradually, the house’s dark secrets are revealed and Lorna discovers its place in her past. There are echoes of Rebecca and I Capture The Castle here, but this a cleverly crafted tale of intrigue and deceit, and Mrs Alton makes Mrs Danvers look like a pussycat. 8/10 (Review by Catherine Small) In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward is published by Faber & Faber. WITH its tangled web of secrets, lies and inter-generational trauma, In Bitter Chill, by first-time crime writer Sarah Ward, provides an often gripping exploration of the painful legacy of the past. Set in Bampton, Derbyshire, the novel centres upon an unsolved crime from 1978: the mysterious abduction of eight-year-old girls Rachel Jones and Sophie Jenkins. Rachel survives, traumatised and unable to recall what happened; Sophie never returns. Thirty years later, Rachel, now a genealogist, is forced to confront her past when Sophie’s mother commits suicide

and a retired local school teacher is found strangled. What’s the connection between these events? Local detective Francis Sandler, and side-kicks Damian Palmer and Connie Childs, are determined to find out. But, with Rachel on a mission to solve the mystery, the detectives face a race against time to find the kidnapper before she does. The claustrophobic setting and compelling plot twists are the main strengths of this novel, even if events veer into the unbelievable at times. The characters are rather less credible, displaying a lack of depth or coherence that is at best puzzling, at worst distracting. Despite these weaknesses, this is a promising debut from a writer who will doubtless grow in confidence as the series develops. 6/10 (Review by Lucy Latchmore) Without The Moon by Cathi Unsworth is published in paperback by Serpent’s Tail. VICIOUS murders in London during the middle of the Second World War, are the theme of this sinister book. The author, Cathi Unsworth, a former music journalist on Melody Maker, has already made a name for herself as a writer of “noir” novels. Her wartime world is indeed a gloomy one, in which the sun never gets a look-in and Berkeley Square’s nightingales stay well out of earshot. Some of her characters are worthy successors to the low-lifes in Jon Mayhew’s Victorian London. The book’s anti-hero is Detective Chief Inspector Edward Greenaway. He leads the search for the “Blackout Ripper”, who is carving up prostitutes. No sooner has the murderer been caught and imprisoned, than another horrible killing of a woman takes place on Waterloo Bridge. Unsworth has done a commendable amount of research into wartime London, especially its varied odours, but inaccuracies still occur. Her book will

BOOKS.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015 undoubtedly appeal to “noir” fans, but it was not for me. 5/10 (Review by Anthony Looch)

NON-FICTION The Crossing: My Journey To The Shattered Heart Of Syria by Samar Yazbek is published in hardback by Rider. IN the summer of 2012, Syrian journalist and celebrated novelist Samar Yazbek was forced to flee Syria and watch helplessly as the uprising, once peaceful, morphed into a bloody war. Yazbek’s only way of helping the people of her homeland was to make the dangerous journey back across the Syrian border, directly into the centre of the devastation filtering through Syrian society. The Crossing documents her three return visits to Syria between 2012 and 2013. This was a period during which the Syrian people were desperately fighting for survival, both against the Assad regime and the brutal and unforgiving force of emerging Jihadist groups. This book is brave, moving and devastating. Yazbek’s simple prose and structure points the reader to the centre of the text: the Syrian people. She is simultaneously one of them and detached from them, recounting stories and experiences with brilliant honesty and devotion. For Yazbek, writing is her weapon, and defiance and dedication leaps out of every paragraph. The Crossing is not for the faint-hearted reader. It is, however, both incredibly relevant and increasingly important. 9/10 (Review by Chloe Chaplain)

CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE WEEK My Alien And Me by Smitri PrasadamHalls (illustrated by Tom McLaughlin) is published in paperback by Oxford University Press. COVERS don’t come more inviting for little (or big) people than a human boy and a green alien bouncing on a planet. The author of Don’t Call Me Sweet! and I Love You Night And Day has teamed up with author and illustrator Tom McLaughlin (Cloudspotter, The Accidental Prime Minister) for this clever twist on the time-honoured ‘discovered alien’ tale (see ET). For the alien in question is actually the human boy, who crash lands on a planet populated by little green men and is found by the narrator and his family. They promptly care for him, introducing him to alien life (“I don’t think he likes slime baths... or Jupiter jellyfish”) and the little green narrator is dismayed when his alien can’t eat with his toes or solar surf and doesn’t know how to go black-hole bungee jumping. So he tells him to go home. Tears ensue and a late-night moment of remorse from our narrator, who seeks out his alien on his defunct spaceship, where he learns about Earth, pirates and dinosaurs. It’s the start of a beautiful friendship and, for children, a lesson in overcoming prejudice and accepting the differences in others – whether they can black-hole bungee jump or not. 7/10 (Review by Kate Whiting)

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From the bookshelves by Dave Pankhurst The Book Connection logical thinking, mathematical thinking and lateral thinking. Our quality of life has been threatened, manipulated and encouraged over the ages, yet humans still behave in ways that prejudice their own lives and the lives of others. If one stops to think about the alcohol and drug epidemic, it cannot be separated from both the available cash in the economy, crime and disrespect for other people. As a survivor of the Holocaust, Viktor Frankl wrote “Man’s Search for Meaning”. One observer notes that it is a book that offers us an avenue of finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives. It is a study into human freedom and dignity that is deeply humanising and has the power to transform lives. Author of the book “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway”, Susan Jeffers, sees it as “one of the most remarkable books I have read. It changed my life and became part of all that I live and all that I teach.” A book that provides tips for boosting innovation and creative problem solving is “Unlocking Your Creativity” by Doreen Poreba. It provides guidance for finding fulfilment in work and life, and exercises for overcoming obstacles to creative thought. Creativity is all around – it

drives innovation and invention and serves as a factor for artists of all kinds. Day to day responsibilities so often distract us from chances to be creative and the text provides ideas for promoting a creative culture at home and at work. How we live depends on how we think – and prominent psychologist Roy Baumeister explains how willpower affects almost every aspect of our lives. His book “Willpower” provides simple tricks to help us tap into this important quality. What is the secret of success: brains, looks, connections? The real answer is willpower and the author shows how self-control is the most important factor in achieving what you want – and how to discover the power in willpower. It is an ideal discipline that teaches how to gain from self-control and take charge of your life. Popular Australian writer Hugh Mackay has written “What Makes Us Tick?” in which he examines the ten things that drive us in life. He focuses on his discussion with people over time – their dreams, their fears, their hopes, their disappointments and their passions. In his exploration of why we do the things we do, he goes to the heart of some of life’s big questions. Enjoy your browsing, Dave Pankhurst

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Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

T H E R E G I O N AT A GLANCE

hear ... artful discussions on sculpture SCULPTURES by the River is an exciting new exhibition highlighting Australian sculpture and artwork. Guests will be given the opportunity to view the sculptures positioned around the Lazy River vineyard and may vote for their favourite in the PrincipleFocus’ People Choice Award. Entry is a gold coin donation (all proceeds going to Pink Angels). Full bar facilities, coffee and cakes will be available in the cellar door. Also ask about the three-day workshop being held prior to create

sculptures with artist Brett “Mon” Garling between Wednesday and Friday, August 19-21. Exhibition, 11am – 2pm, Saturday and Sunday, August 22-23, Lazy River Estate.

... witty stuff from the stage, the kids will love THE 26-Storey treehouse takes the stage. Apparently author Andy Griffiths and illustrator Terry Denton had such a ball with their crash-landing entry into the world of theatre with the 13-Storey Treehouse, they’re back for more. Actually 13 more storeys,

in fact, and you’re invited! You know what 13 more storeys means? More inventions – like a 78 flavour icecream dispensing robot and the brain bamboozling Maze of Doom (not to mention the self-inflating underpants) and more things to go wrong – not least of which is the very real possibility that the entire show is a complete and utter disaster! Monday and Tuesday, August 3 and 4, Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre.

... clever things said about time-lapse video making ABC OPEN and the Fire Station Arts

Centre invite you to take part in a free one-day workshop to learn the basics of shooting and editing a short time-lapse video. Time-lapse is a fun technique to speed up time, showing a long process in a short space of time such as the sun rising or the movement of clouds and shadows. Make a practice video and learn the skills you need to plan and publish your video on ABC Open. You will need to bring your own DSLR and laptop or smartphone/tablet to take part in this workshop. 10am-3.30pm, Saturday, August 8, Fire Station Arts Centre, Dubbo.

see ... the Ridge and it’s festival of firey stones THE 2015 Lightning Ridge Opal Festival is going to be one festival you don’t want to miss. Jewellers, buyers, wholesalers, miners, rock hounds, lapidary enthusiasts and tourists are invited to experience the best Lightning Ridge has to offer with this culmination of information, spectacular jewellery, collectables, great deals and fantastic networking opportunities. The Opal and Gem Expo boasts over 120 stalls with a huge range

of products including gemstones, tools, lapidary supplies and lifestyle products. While you’re in town visit the many artist galleries. The festival ends Sunday, August 2, Lightning Ridge, Black Opal capital of the world.

... a good movie about a good lie DUBBO Multicultural Festival 2015 presents Heritage Film, The Good Lie, Miracles are made by people who refuse to stop believing’, which is a 2014 American

drama film written by Margaret Nagle, and directed by Philippe Falardeau. Filmed in Atlanta, Georgia and South Africa; the film stars Reese Witherspoon (pictured), Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal, Corey Stoll, and Sarah Baker. Four young Sudanese refugees (some of the Lost Boys of Sudan) are helped by Carrie Davis, a brash American woman, after they win a lottery for relocation to the United States. Purchase tickets online at www. thegoodliemovie.com.au/tickets. 7pm, August 8, Midnight Café.

do ... go to the world famous Louth Races ON the banks of the Darling River, 132km north-west of Cobar, Louth has an undeniable reputation for staging a great annual race meeting that keeps crowds coming back... year after year. Dating back to 1888 today’s racegoers today arrive in air-conditioned buses and cars, or by aeroplane. Find out why racegoers love the sheer isolation of Louth – the colourful bush characters and the experience of watching the horses thunder past the winning post in a cloud of dust – the action isn’t just

confined to the Saturday. Instead, there are four days of entertainment and activities, so come along, join in the fun and embrace outback country racing at its best. There’s also Fashions in the Field with cash and prizes for best-dressed lady and gentleman. Note there’s a requirement this year to include something woollen in your attire. Show off your personality with something a little more outrageous to win the Mr or Ms Personality of Louth prize. Fly from Dubbo with Airlink Air Charters and arrive in 1.5 hours. The 7-race program starts from ‘about midday’, Saturday, Au-

gust 8, Louth.

... head to Louth early for a Gundabooka Golf Challenge NOT much in the way of greens on the outback Louth course which is part of the fun. Definitely one for the bucket list for die-hard golfers who can see the novelty value of chipping and putting their way through the 9-hole course with the aid of just one ‘stick’. The day’s festivities include lunch, drinks and a hearty dinner and charity auction at Shindy’s Inn, with proceeds going to the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Wednesday, August 5. See website for details.

etc. Future Feminist Archive Symposium JESSICA MOORE, Collections Officer, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Simone Taylor, Local Studies Officer, Macquarie Regional Library; Dr. Gillian Fuller, UNSW NIEA, Art & Design; Eric Ridder, AGNSW Archive; and, Jo Holder and Catorina Moore, Contemporary Art and Feminism will come together for a symposium to consider ways of recovering archives that have been forgotten and explore new relationships between archives and feminism.

Spaces are limited to 20 only. Participants can attend a DAAO workshop from 12.30pm to 2.30pm to learn how to access the biggest data research project in Australian visual culture. Symposium, 11am-12pm, Saturday, August 1; DAAO workshop, 12.30pm-2.30pm, Western Plains Cultural Centre.

Louth Public School Fair FOR a taste and atmosphere of a genuine country fair with all the trimmings, add an extra day to your trip to the races and visit Louth Public School which holds an amazing art-and-craft fair for

the many visitors in town for the weekend’s main event. Visitors browse the many display stands on offer, indulge in Devonshire teas, a sausage sizzle, and take advantage of massage and aromatherapy services. At night there’s a Calcutta and barbecue at Shindy’s Inn and a band entertains the crowd until late. 10am-2.30pm, Friday, August 7, Louth Public School.

Positive messages for August WORLD Breastfeeding Week is coming in the first week of August, which aims to protect, promote and support breast-

feeding as the best way to provide newborns with the nutrients they need. August is also Tradies National Health Month run by the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) and Steel Blue. The focus is on educating and engaging tradies on the importance of full body health and safety. August 2-8 is National Missing Persons week. Out of the 35,000 people who are reported each year, approximately 20,000 are under the age of 18. Get behind a good cause today and make a difference in the community. Start local.

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Dubbo Weekender | Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015

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OLD BANK RESTAURANT KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϭϮ Ɵů ůĂƚĞ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ŵƵƐŝĐ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ƟŵĞƐ Ψϭϱ ůƵŶĐŚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ 232 Macquarie Street, 6884 7728

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Open Monday to Saturday from 6pm ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂŶ ĐƵŝƐŝŶĞ ƵƐŝŶŐ ůŽĐĂů ƉƌŽĚƵĐĞ͘ &Ƶůů Ăƌ ĨĞĂƚƵƌŝŶŐ ZŽďĞƌƚ KĂƚůĞǇ tŝŶĞƐ͘ YƵĂůŝƚǇ /ŶŶ ƵďďŽ /ŶƚĞƌŶĂƟŽŶĂů Newell Highway (next to the golf course), 6882 4777.

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KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϰĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ͘ Open Saturday and Sunday ĂůĐŽŶǇ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͛Ɛ ĨƌŽŵ ϴĂŵ Ͳ ϭϭ͘ϯϬĂŵ ^ĞƌǀŝŶŐ ŝůů͛Ɛ ĞĂŶƐ ŽīĞĞ 110 Talbragar St, 6882 4219

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Open Saturday 8am to 1am Sunday ϴĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϬƉŵ͘ YƵĂůŝƚǇ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŵĞŶƚ͕ ďůĂĐŬďŽĂƌĚ ƐƉĞĐŝĂůƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ďŝƐƚƌŽ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6882 4411

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Open Saturday and Sunday 6am to ϱ͘ϯϬƉŵ͘ Gourmet pies DŽƵƚŚͲǁĂƚĞƌŝŶŐ ĐĂŬĞƐ ĞůŝĐŝŽƵƐ ƉĂƐƚƌŝĞƐ 'ŽƵƌŵĞƚ &ƌĞŶĐŚ ŐĂƌĚĞŶ ƐĂůĂĚ ďĂŐƵĞƩĞƐ ĂŶĚ ƐĂůĂĚƐ͘ WĞƌĨĞĐƚ ďƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ĂŶĚ ďƌƵŶĐŚ 113 Darling Street (adjacent to the railway crossing), 6884 5454

STICKS AND STONES

Open Saturday and Sunday ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ ϳ͘ϯϬ ʹ ϯƉŵ >ƵŶĐŚ ϭϮD ʹ ϯƉŵ ŝŶŶĞƌ ϲƉŵ ʹ YƵŝĞƚ ŝŶĞ ŝŶ Žƌ dĂŬĞĂǁĂǇ͘ tŽŽĚĮƌĞĚ WŝǌǌĂƐ͕ ŚŽŵĞŵĂĚĞ ƉĂƐƚĂƐ͕ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ĚĞƐƐĞƌƚƐ͘ 'ůƵƚĞŶ ĨƌĞĞ ĂŶĚ ǀĞŐĞƚĂƌŝĂŶ ŽƉƟŽŶƐ ĂƌĞ ĂůƐŽ ĂǀĂŝůĂďůĞ͘ ʹůĂʹĐĂƌƚĞ ĚŝŶŝŶŐ 215A Macquarie St, 6885 4852

THE GRAPEVINE ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϰƉŵ 'ŽŽĚ ĨŽŽĚ͕ ŐŽŽĚ ĐŽīĞĞ ĂŶĚ ŐŽŽĚ company 144 Brisbane St, 6884 7354

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KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϵĂŵ Ɵů ϮƉŵ ǀĞƌǇƚŚŝŶŐ ǇŽƵ ŶĞĞĚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ Įƚ for your foot 176 Macquarie Street, 6881 8400

KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ͘ ZŝǀĞƌǀŝĞǁ ŝƐƚƌŽ ϭϮƉŵ ƚŽ ϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϲƉŵ ƚŽ ϵƉŵ͘ ZĞůĂǆĞĚ ĂŶĚ ĨƌŝĞŶĚůǇ ĂƚŵŽƐƉŚĞƌĞ͘ Whylandra St, 6884 3000

THE CASTLEREAGH HOTEL KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϮĂŵ͕ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϭϬĂŵ ƚŽ ϭϮĂŵ͘ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨŽƌ ůƵŶĐŚ ĂŶĚ ĚŝŶŶĞƌ ϳ ĚĂǇƐ Ă ǁĞĞŬ͘ Cnr Brisbane and Talbragar Streets, 68824877

SPORTIES KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ĂŶĚ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ĨƌŽŵ ϵĂŵ ZĞƐƚĂƵƌĂŶƚ ŽƉĞŶ ĨƌŽŵ ϭϭ͘ϰϱĂŵͲϮƉŵ ĂŶĚ ϱ͘ϰϱͲϵƉŵ͘ 101 - 103 Erskine Street, 6884 2044

GYMS RSL AQUATIC & HEALTH CLUB KƉĞŶ ^ĂƚƵƌĚĂǇ ϳ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϱƉŵ KƉĞŶ ^ƵŶĚĂǇ ϴ͘ϯϬĂŵͲϯƉŵ 'Ǉŵ͕ /ŶĚŽŽƌ ƉŽŽů͕ ^ĂƵŶĂ͕ ^ƚĞĂŵ ƌŽŽŵ ^ƋƵĂƐŚ ĐŽƵƌƚƐ Cnr Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets, 6884 1777

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Friday, July 31 Raymond Blanc: How To Cook Well

Neighbours

SBS, 6pm If you can ignore the annoyingly posh utterings of the female voice busily narrating this series (and the twee music), Raymond Blanc’s lovable French accent and happy demeanour will win you over. Featuring lots of close-up shots of rather delicious fruits, vegetables and meats being crafted into something delicious looking, these step-by-step instructions are straight to the point, but delivered with finesse and a smile by Raymond. Tonight, he generously lets us in on his secrets to mastering the BBQ and grill. Included on the menu is a grilled eggplant salad and barbecued chicken.

ABC

MOVIE: Shark Tale

ELEVEN, 6.30pm Australia’s longest-running drama series, which follows the lives of the accident and angst-prone residents of Erinsborough’s Ramsay St, never seems to have a dull moment. There’s always someone fighting, complaining, kissing someone they’re not supposed to or generally just annoying their neighbours. It’s hardly surprising it’s an institution where the majority of our successful actors learned to cut their teeth. Tonight, guilt pushes Amy (Jacinta Stapleton) to leave town and Sheila (Colette Mann) catches a thief. Meanwhile, Joshua (Harley Bonner) wins Amber (Jenna Rosenow) over.

PRIME7

GO!, 7.30pm, G (2004) The makers of Shrek head to the ocean to deliver some top laughs in a fishy tale that pokes fun at mobster films. Will Smith voices Oscar (right), a little fish who becomes a celebrity when he falsely earns the reputation of shark slayer. Boss shark Don Lino (Robert De Niro) vows revenge on him. Completing a top-drawer voice cast are Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Renee Zellweger and Martin Scorsese. As with Shrek, the jokes, in-jokes, puns and movie parodies (of gangster films in particular) come thick and fast and provide many laugh-out-loud moments. One for all the family to enjoy.

WIN

TEN

SBS

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 10.00 One Plus One. (CC) 10.30 Kids On Speed? (R, CC) 11.30 Hospital Chaplains. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 2.00 The Time Of Our Lives. (PG, R, CC) Charts the lives of an Australian family. 3.00 Catalyst. (R, CC) Adventures in science. 3.40 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC) A cricket captain is framed for murder. 4.30 Eggheads. (R, CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 The Drum. (CC)

6.00 Sunrise. (CC) News, sport and weather. 9.00 The Morning Show. (PG, CC) 11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Ice. (M, R, CC) (1998) A sudden ice age strikes the globe. Grant Show, Eva La Rue. 2.00 The Daily Edition. (CC) Presented by Sally Obermeder, Monique Wright and Tom Williams. 3.00 The Chase. (R, CC) Hosted by Bradley Walsh. 4.00 News. (CC) 5.00 Deal Or No Deal. (R, CC) Hosted by Andrew O’Keefe. 5.30 Million Dollar Minute. (CC) Hosted by Simon Reeve.

6.00 Today. (CC) 9.00 Mornings. (PG, CC) Topical issues and celebrity interviews. 11.30 News. (CC) 12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (R, CC) 1.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) Variety show. 2.00 Extra. (CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos. 2.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) Easy-to-cook recipes. 3.00 News Now. (CC) 4.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Millionaire Hot Seat. (CC)

6.00 Ent. Tonight. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Huey. (R, CC) 7.00 Ben’s Menu. (R, CC) 7.30 Bold. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Dr Phil. (M, CC) 1.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 1.30 Entertainment Tonight. (PG, CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Judge Judy. (PG, CC) 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R, CC) 4.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (CC) 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. (CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News From Cyprus. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 NITV News Week In Review. 1.30 France 24 International News. (CC) 1.45 The Journal. (CC) 2.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 3.00 Al Jazeera News. (CC) 3.30 Strip The City. (R, CC) 4.25 Two Laps. (PG, R) 4.30 Backroads USA. (CC) 5.00 Room 101. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Letters And Numbers. (R, CC)

6.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) Fiona Bruce and the experts travel to Wentworth Woodhouse where they examine some local treasures. 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 7.30. (CC) Current affairs program. 8.00 QI. (PG, R, CC) Guests David Mitchell, Ross Noble and Jeremy Clarkson join Stephen Fry for an “H”-inspired discussion. 8.30 Jonathan Creek. (M, R, CC) A series of strange and mysterious occurrences bedevil Jonathan, his wife and the local community. 9.30 Line Of Duty. (M, CC) Denied bail, Lindsay finds Growing increasingly desperate after she is targeted by her fellow prisoners. 10.30 Lateline. (R, CC) News analysis program featuring up-to-the-minute coverage of current events. 11.00 The Business. (R, CC) The day’s business and finance news, including a look at the latest trends on the international share and currency markets. 11.20 Dirty Laundry. (M, R, CC) Hosted by Lawrence Mooney.

6.00 PRIME7 News. (CC) 6.30 News. (CC) 7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. (CC) Joh visits the home of Dancing With The Stars contestant Emma Freedman. Fast Ed shows three recipes that use every part of the fruit and vegetable. Demi makes a chic clock with an urban feel. 8.30 To Be Advised.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 WIN News. (CC) 7.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 21. Sydney Roosters v Canterbury Bulldogs. From Allianz Stadium, Sydney. 9.30 Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 21. Wests Tigers v Melbourne Storm. From Leichhardt Oval, Sydney. 11.30 Extra. (R, CC) Entertainment news program from The Grove in Los Angeles. Hosted by Mario Lopez and Maria Menounos.

6.00 Family Feud. (CC) Two families try to win big prizes by guessing the most popular responses to a survey of the public. Hosted by Grant Denyer. 6.30 The Project. (CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics. 7.30 The Living Room. (PG, CC) Lifestyle program, hosted by Amanda Keller. Gardening guru Jamie Durie transforms a halffinished yard into an oasis. Interior designer Barry Du Bois visits the home of Violent Femmes bassist Brian Ritchie. In New Zealand, chef Miguel Maestre prepares a bacon and egg pie. 8.30 To Be Advised. 11.00 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) A fast-paced, irreverent look at news, with five comedians competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week. Hosted by Tom Gleisner.

6.00 Raymond Blanc: How To Cook Well. (CC) French chef and restaurateur Raymond Blanc gives a masterclass in the basic cooking technique of barbecuing. 6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Secrets Of Britain: Secrets Of Underground London. (PG, R, CC) Explores the real-life stories and history behind some famous British buildings and institutions. 8.30 Secrets Of The Castle: Beyond The Castle Walls. (CC) Part 5 of 5. Ruth, Peter and Tom conclude their look at the reconstruction of Guédelon Castle. 9.30 Go Back To Where You Came From. (M, R, CC) Part 1 of 3. In order to challenge their beliefs about refugees and asylum seekers, a new group of six Australians embarks on a confronting journey. 10.30 World News. (CC) 11.05 Go Back To Where You Came From. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 3. The six Australians get to experience first hand the reality of the “turn back the boats” policy.

12.05 Rage. (MA15+) Continuous music programming. 5.00 Rage. (PG, CC) Continuous music programming.

12.30 Home Shopping.

12.00 WIN’s All Australian News. (CC) 1.00 A Current Affair. (R, CC) 1.30 Weeds. (MA15+, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Oranges And Sunshine. (M, R, CC) (2010) Emily Watson. 4.00 Extra. (R, CC) 4.30 Good Morning America. (CC)

12.00 The Project. (R, CC) Join the hosts for a look at the day’s news, events and hot topics. 1.00 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) Advice on health issues. 2.00 Infomercials. (PG) 2.30 Home Shopping.

12.05 Go Back To Where You Came From. (M, R, CC) 1.05 MOVIE: Even The Rain. (M, R) (2010) 3.00 Duck Quacks Don’t Echo. (M, R, CC) 3.50 Sandhurst Military Academy. (M, R, CC) 5.00 Korean News. 5.35 Japanese News.

CLASSIFICATIONS: (P) For preschoolers (C) Children’s programs (G) General viewing (PG) Parental guidance (M) Mature audiences (MA15+) Mature audiences only (AV15+) Extreme violence. (R) Repeat (CC) Closed Captions. Please Note: Listings are correct at the time of print and are subject to late change by networks. 3107

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015

Friday, July 31 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

7.30pm Tokyo Tribe (2014) Sci-ﬁ. Tomoko Karina, Ryôhei Suzuki. In futuristic Tokyo, warring street gangs are forced to unite in the ﬁght against a power-crazed Yakuza. (MA15+) World Movies

6.35pm Ray Donovan. (MA15+) Showcase

7.30pm Leopards: An Unnatural History. In an ever-shrinking world, the lives of leopards are colliding with people, and hundreds of these big cats are stoned, trapped or shot. (PG) Animal Planet

8.30am Golf. Web.com Tour. Utah Championship. First round. Fox Sports 3

8.30pm Lockup. (M) Crime & Investigation

11.00pm Tennis. ATP 250. Swiss Open. Quarter-ﬁnals. Fox Sports 2

8.30pm Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014) Action. Tom Sizemore, Lex Shrapnel. (MA15+) Premiere 8.30pm The Object Of My Affection (1998) Comedy. Jennifer Aniston, Paul Rudd. (M) Romance

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.25 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 1.40 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 1.55 Mouk. (R) 2.05 Elmo The Musical. (R, CC) 2.20 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.35 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 Thomas. (R, CC) 5.00 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 5.10 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Octonauts. (R, CC) 5.45 Peg + Cat. (R, CC) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Curious George. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 8.15 That ’70s Show. (PG, R, CC) 8.40 Cocaine Cowboys. (M, R, CC) 10.35 How Drugs Work. (MA15+, R, CC) 11.35 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 12.20 Doctor Who. (PG, R, CC) 1.05 Jimmy Fallon. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 News Update. (R) 1.55 Close. 5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.15 Guess With Jess. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 10.40 So You Want To Be A Designer? (R, CC) 11.05 The Shot. (R, CC) 11.10 Australian Artists. (R, CC) 11.30 Heirlooms. (CC) 11.35 BTN. (R, CC) 12.00 Degrassi – The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 12.45 Round The Twist. (R, CC) 1.10 WAC. (R, CC) 1.35 Lab Rats Challenge. (R, CC) 2.00 Arthur. (R, CC) 2.25 The Jungle Book. (R, CC) 2.35 The Jungle Bunch. (R) 2.45 Canimals. (R) 2.55 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 3.05 Oh No! It’s An Alien Invasion. (R, CC) 3.30 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 3.50 The Flamin’ Thongs. (R, CC) 4.05 Grojband. (R, CC) 4.25 Little Lunch. (CC) 4.40 News On 3. (CC) 4.45 Studio 3. 4.50 Strange Hill High. (R, CC) 5.10 Doodles. (R) 5.25 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 5.55 House Of Anubis. (R) 6.20 Wacky World Beaters. (R, CC) 6.50 News On 3. (CC) 7.00 The Adventures Of Merlin. (PG, R, CC) 7.45 Girl Vs Boy. (CC) (Final) 8.10 MY:24. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, CC) 8.50 Kobushi. (R, CC) 9.00 K-On! (PG, CC) 9.25 Sword Art Online. (PG, R, CC) 9.50 Puella Magi Madoka Magica. (PG, R, CC) 10.15 Close.

8.30pm Blood, Sweat And Heels. After scouting an impressive yacht, Chantelle makes big decisions in pursuit of the American dream. (M) Arena 8.30pm Saving Hope. Alex is set up on a disastrous blind date, with her mystery man needing emergency medical attention. (M) SoHo

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (PG, R) 7.00 Match It. (C, CC) 7.30 Ghosts Of Time. (C, R, CC) 8.00 Pipsqueaks. (P, CC) 8.30 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 9.00 Home And Away. (PG, R, CC) 9.30 Shortland Street. (PG) 10.00 NBC Today. (R, CC) 12.00 Chicago Fire. (M, CC) 2.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show. 4.30 60 Minute Makeover. (PG) 5.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Dog Patrol. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Animal Airport. (PG, R, CC) A lemur is captured in central London. 8.30 Escape To The Country. Jonnie Irwin helps a couple find a rural property in Norfolk to house them, some relatives and an expanding business. 10.30 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 11.30 Best Houses Australia. (R) 12.00 Bargain Hunt. (R) 1.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Borderline. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Escape To The Country. (R) 3.30 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 4.30 Animal Airport. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. (R) 6.30 Shopping. (PG, R) 7.00 Sofia The First. (R, CC) 7.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates. (R, CC) 8.00 Doc McStuffins. (CC) 8.30 Art Attack. (CC) 9.00 Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil. (CC) 9.30 Kickin’ It. (CC) 10.00 Fish Hooks. (R, CC) 10.30 Crash & Bernstein. (CC) 11.00 Young, Lazy And Driving Us Crazy. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 T.J. Hooker. (PG, R) 1.00 Covert Affairs. (M, R, CC) 2.00 The Amazing Race. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Swamp People. (PG, R) 4.00 Billy The Exterminator. (PG) 4.30 Gator Boys. (PG) 5.30 Classic Car Rescue. (PG, R) 6.30 How I Met Your Mother. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 AFL Pre-Game Show. (CC) 7.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 18. Hawthorn v Richmond. 11.00 MOVIE: Jackass 2.5. (MA15+, R) (2007) 12.30 MOVIE: Van Wilder: Freshman Year. (MA15+, R) (2009) Jonathan Bennett, Kristin Cavallari. 2.30 Locked Up Abroad. (M, R) 3.40 Jail. (M, R) 4.00 Young, Lazy And Driving Us Crazy. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R)

8.00pm Football. AFL. Hawthorn v Richmond. From the MCG. Fox Footy

9.30pm Living In Secret. A look into the lives of student Ricky, who moonlights as a male escort, and dedicated nurse Tiffany, who makes money as an exotic dancer. (M) Biography

GO! 6.00 Robocar Poli. (R) 6.30 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 7.00 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 7.30 Kitchen Whiz. (C, CC) 8.00 Pyramid. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 9.00 Surprises. (P, R, CC) 9.30 SpongeBob. (R) 10.00 The Batman. (R) 10.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 11.00 Power Rangers. (PG, R) 11.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R) 12.00 Extra. (CC) 12.30 TMZ. 1.00 TMZ Live. 2.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 2.30 Tom And Jerry. (R) 3.00 SpongeBob. (R) 3.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 4.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 4.05 Looney Tunes. 4.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 5.00 Ben 10. (PG, R) 5.30 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 6.00 MOVIE: Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island. (R) (1998) 7.30 MOVIE: Shark Tale. (R) (2004) Will Smith. 9.30 MOVIE: Hall Pass. (MA15+, R, CC) (2011) Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis. 11.40 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 12.10 MAD. (M, R) 12.30 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (M, R) 1.00 Supernatural: The Animated Series. (AV15+, R) 1.30 Rabbids. (PG, R) 2.00 TMZ Live. (R) 3.00 TMZ. (R) 3.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Skippy. (R) 7.00 Secret Dealers. (PG, R, CC) 8.00 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 9.00 Shopping. 10.30 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 11.00 Friends. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Countryfile. (PG, R) 1.00 MOVIE: How To Stuff A Wild Bikini. (R, CC) (1965) 3.00 Alive And Cooking. (CC) 3.30 Obese USA. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 The Ellen DeGeneres Show. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Gilmore Girls. (PG, R, CC) 6.30 Friends. (PG, R, CC) Phoebe’s birthday does not go to plan. 7.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes. Third Test. England v Australia. Day 3. Morning session. From Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham, England. 10.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes. Third Test. England v Australia. Day 3. Afternoon session. From Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham, England. 3.00 MOVIE: The Man Who Finally Died. (PG, R, CC) (1963) 5.00 Alive And Cooking. (R, CC) 5.30 The Dog Rescuers. (PG, R)

Chantelle Fraser stars in Blood, Sweat and Heels

ONE 6.00 Infomercials. (PG) 8.00 International Rally Of Queensland Event Review Pt 2. (R, CC) 9.00 From The Quadrangle. (PG, R, CC) 10.00 Totally Wild. (R, CC) 10.30 Hardliners. (PG, R) 11.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 12.00 Undercover Boss. (M, R) 1.00 Awake. (M, R, CC) 2.00 Emergency Search & Rescue. (PG, R) 2.30 Emergency Search & Rescue. (R) 3.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (R, CC) 4.00 David Letterman. (PG, R) 5.00 Extreme Boats’ Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 5.30 iFish. (R) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Black Gold. (PG, R) 8.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) Officers patrol the streets of the US. 9.30 MOVIE: True Justice: One Shot, One Life. (M, R) (2012) Steven Segal. 11.30 Bellator MMA. (M) 1.30 Shopping. 2.00 Motor Racing. Formula 1. Hungarian Grand Prix. Race 10. Replay. 3.00 Darren & Brose. (R) 3.30 Cops: Adults Only. (M, R) 4.00 Ross Kemp: Back On The Frontline. (M, R) 5.00 Motor Racing. FIA Formula E Championship. London ePrix. Highlights.

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Vic The Viking. (C, R, CC) 8.30 Toasted TV. 9.30 Wurrawhy. (P, R, CC) 10.00 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 11.00 Raymond. (R, CC) 11.30 Taxi. (PG, R) 12.00 Medium. (M, R, CC) 1.00 JAG. (PG, R) 2.00 Judging Amy. (M, R) 3.00 Infomercials. (PG) 3.30 Cheers. (PG, R) 4.00 King Of Queens. (PG, R) 4.30 James Corden. (PG, R) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud. (CC) 6.30 Neighbours. (CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG) 9.30 New Girl. (PG, R) The gang go camping for Thanksgiving. 10.00 Snog, Marry, Avoid? (PG, R) 10.40 Sex And The City. (MA15+, R) 11.20 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 11.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.50 Glee. (PG, R, CC) 1.50 Touched By An Angel. (PG, R) 2.55 Medium. (M, R, CC) 4.00 JAG. (PG, R) 5.00 Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 DW Global 3000. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Italian News. 1.35 German News. 2.05 Spanish News. 3.05 Greek News. 4.00 Iron Chef. (R, CC) 4.45 Vs Arashi. 5.40 American Ninja Warrior. 6.30 If You Are The One. (R) 7.30 Friday Feed. Hosted by Marc Fennell. 8.00 The Tim Ferriss Experiment. (PG, CC) Presented by Tim Ferriss. 8.30 Derren Brown: The Events. (PG, R) Derren looks at remote viewing. 9.30 12 Monkeys. (MA15+) Cole and Railly locate the Night Room. 10.20 Black Mirror. (M, R, CC) 11.15 Attack On Titan. (M, R) 12.15 Friday Feed. (R) 12.45 PopAsia. (PG) 2.50 NHK World News In English From Tokyo. 5.00 French News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Bizou. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Waabiny Time. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Bushwhacked! 9.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Yarramundi Kids. 10.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 11.00 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.30 Oondamooroo. (M) 1.30 Tag 20: The Documentary. 2.30 Mugu Kids. 3.00 Yarramundi Kids. 3.30 Move It Mob Style. 4.00 Waabiny Time. 4.30 Bushwhacked! 5.00 Go Lingo. 5.30 NITV News. 6.00 Samaqan: Water Stories. 6.30 Outback Cafe. 7.00 NITV News. 7.30 Kriol Kitchen. 8.00 30th Anniversary Commonwealth Games. 8.30 Aunty Moves In. 9.00 Go Girls. (M) 10.00 My Life As I Live It. 11.00 NITV News. 11.30 Outback Cafe. 12.00 Express Yourself. (MA15+) 1.00 Rugby League. Koori Knockout. From Raymond Terrace, NSW. 2.15 Rugby League. Queensland Murri Carnival. 3.30 Flying Boomerangs. (PG) 4.00 Football. 2011 Lightning Cup. Titjikala v Western Aranda. 5.00 From The Western Frontier. 5.30 Kriol Kitchen.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 ABC News Mornings. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 1.00 Capital Hill. (CC) 1.30 News. (CC) 6.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Lateline. (CC) 10.00 The World. (CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 7.30. (R, CC) 12.00 News. 12.30 The Drum. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.25 ABC Open. 2.30 7.30. (R, CC) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 BBC Focus On Africa. 3.55 ABC Open. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Lateline. (R, CC)

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Saturday, August 1 MOVIE: My Girl PRIME7, 2pm, PG (1991) Sickly sweet coming-of-age story that gets bonus points for its dark humour. Set in a fictitious Pennsylvanian suburb in 1972, it focuses on death-obsessed 11-yearold Vada Sultenfuss – the daughter of a widowed mortician (Dan Aykroyd, as wooden as ever) – and her attempts to come to terms with various dilemmas. Anna Chlumsky gives a confident debut performance, co-star Macaulay Culkin (cast as her hypochondriac best friend) is less memorable but, for anyone who grew up with this flick, it still holds a special place in the heart – and will get you singing if nothing else.

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MOVIE: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

Room 101 SBS, 8.30pm

TEN, 9pm, M (2011) Tom Cruise reprises his role as crack secret agent Ethan Hunt in the surprisingly excellent fourth chapter of the popular franchise. With help from talented behind-the-scenes players (director Brad Bird and producer JJ Abrams), this spy yarn features great set-pieces as Hunt is forced to go rogue after a mission goes bad in Moscow and the Kremlin is obliterated. Do not miss the showstopping scene when Cruise scales the outside of Dubai’s gargantuan Burj Khalifa hotel.

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6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 11.30 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 First Footprints: Super Nomads – 50,000 To 30,000 Years Ago. (R, CC) 1.00 Antiques Roadshow. (R, CC) 2.00 Country House Rescue. (R, CC) (Final) 3.00 Rick Stein’s India. (R, CC) (Final) 4.00 QI. (PG, R, CC) Hosted by Stephen Fry. 4.30 Landline. (R, CC) Presented by Pip Courtney. 5.00 Midsomer Murders. (PG, R, CC) A hated property developer is murdered.

6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) 12.00 MOVIE: Space Buddies. (R, CC) (2009) A pack of dogs stows away on a spaceship. Jason Earles. 2.00 MOVIE: My Girl. (PG, R, CC) (1991) A young girl befriends a shy boy. Anna Chlumsky. 4.00 Medical Emergency. (PG, R, CC) A power station worker suffers serious injuries. 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens. (R, CC) Joh and Ed explore Victoria’s High Country. 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC)

6.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 6.30 Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) 7.00 Weekend Today: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Mornings: Saturday. (PG, CC) 12.00 Supernanny: Beyond The Naughty Step. (PG, R, CC) 12.30 Hot In Cleveland. (PG, R, CC) 1.00 MOVIE: Empire Of The Sun. (PG, R, CC) (1987) An English boy is interned by the Japanese. Christian Bale. 4.00 Adam’s Pasta Pilgrimage. (PG, CC) 4.30 Dr Lisa To The Rescue. (CC) 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Getaway. (PG, CC)

6.00 RPM. (R, CC) 7.00 ET’s Fishing Classics. (R, CC) 7.30 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R, CC) 8.00 Family Feud. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Saturday. (CC) 10.00 Studio 10: Saturday Extra. (PG, CC) 11.00 The Living Room. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 2.00 The Doctors. (PG, R, CC) 3.00 Movie Juice. (R, CC) A look into the world of movies. 3.30 Just Go. (CC) 4.00 Andy & Ben Eat The World. (CC) 4.30 Places We Go With Jennifer Adams. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. (CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News From Cyprus. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 PBS NewsHour. (CC) 2.00 The Incredible Spice Men. (R, CC) 2.30 Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Island Feast. (R, CC) 3.25 Shane Delia’s Spice Journey Turkey Bitesize. (R) 3.30 D-Day: The Soldiers’ Story. (PG, R, CC) 4.30 Roman Homicide. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 The Stuarts. (PG, CC)

6.30 Gardening Australia. (CC) Costa visits the propagating group at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens. 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 Father Brown. (PG, CC) Father Brown learns about a plot to assassinate a bishop while under the Seal Of Confession. 8.20 New Tricks. (PG, R, CC) Brian’s wife introduces him to a friend from her book club who is looking for her missing brother. 9.20 Doc Martin. (PG, R, CC) (Final) When Louisa decides to leave for Spain, Martin finds the scan of her brain and spots a malformation. 10.05 The Bletchley Circle. (M, R, CC) Part 2 of 4. After one of her former compatriots is accused of murder, Jean sets out to prove her innocence. 10.55 The Weekly With Charlie Pickering. (M, R, CC) A satirical news program. 11.25 Adam Hills: The Last Leg. (R, CC) UK-based panel show featuring host Adam Hills taking an offbeat look at events of the week.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 MOVIE: Spider-Man 2. (PG, R, CC) (2004) Faced with an old enemy, Peter Parker must decide between living a normal life as a university student and embracing his heroic identity as Spider-Man, in order to save New York City. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco. 9.35 MOVIE: Get Him To The Greek. (MA15+, R, CC) (2010) An aspiring music executive, who is still reeling from a crisis in his personal life, has just three days to escort an out-of-control legendary rock performer from London to Los Angeles, for a comeback concert. Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Elisabeth Moss. 11.50 The Goldbergs. (PG, R, CC) Adam abandons his trickor-treating tradition with Pops in order to hang out with a cool new friend. The news her kids intend to do their own thing for Halloween upsets Beverly. Barry and Erica attend a party.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Hotplate. (PG, R, CC) Unsung local restaurant owners from around the country compete to impress judges Scott Pickett and Tom Parker Bowles and win a $100,000 prize while realising their culinary dreams. 8.30 The Hotplate. (PG, R, CC) Unsung local restaurant owners from around the country compete to impress judges Scott Pickett and Tom Parker Bowles and win a $100,000 prize while realising their culinary dreams. 9.40 The Hotplate. (PG, R, CC) Unsung local restaurant owners from around the country compete to impress judges Scott Pickett and Tom Parker Bowles and win a $100,000 prize while realising their culinary dreams. 10.50 MOVIE: Poseidon. (M, R, CC) (2006) After a giant wave capsizes a luxury cruise liner, a group of survivors must reach the top of the upturned ship before it sinks. Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Emmy Rossum.

6.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (CC) Gary Mehigan heads to Jodhpur, India, where he attend the Riff Festival. 7.00 MOVIE: Epic. (PG, CC) (2013) After moving in with her father, a teen finds herself transported to a magical world hidden in a nearby forest after a chance encounter. Colin Farrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Amanda Seyfried. 9.00 MOVIE: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. (M, R, CC) (2011) After a covert organisation is implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, a spy and his team go rogue in order to uncover the truth. It appears the agency had stumbled across a plot by a Russian, who used the incident to help further his plan to start a nuclear war. Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg. 11.40 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 7. Ipswich Super Sprint. Highlights. From Queensland Raceway, Ipswich, Queensland.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.30 Wild West With Ray Mears: Mountains. (CC) Part 1 of 3. Ray Mears looks at America’s three great mountain ranges. 8.30 Room 101. (PG, CC) Paul McDermott interviews celebrity chef Poh Ling Yeow, who discusses her pet hates and the things that make her angry. From serial face pullers, to stinky room deodorisers, and selfish sick kissing, Poh hopes Paul will help make her world a cleaner, more natural, healthier place. 9.00 MOVIE: The Finishers. (PG) (2013) After a wheelchair-bound young man refuses to give up his dreams of adventure and challenges his father to compete with him in a triathlon, their quest sees their family reunite in support of the endeavour. Jacques Gamblin, Fabien Heraud, Alexandra Lamy. 10.35 MOVIE: Declaration Of War. (M, R) (2011) In the wake of their whirlwind romance, a couple receive shocking news about their first child. Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaim, César Desseix.

12.10 Rage. (MA15+) Features music videos chosen by special guest programmers. 5.00 Rage. (PG) Continuous music programming.

12.20 Last Resort. (M, R, CC) The crew of a US nuclear submarine becomes fugitives after they disobey a suspicious order. 1.30 Home Shopping.

12.50 MOVIE: Divine Madness. (M, R, CC) (1980) Bette Midler. 2.25 MOVIE: Britannia Hospital. (M, R, CC) (1982) Leonard Rossiter. 4.35 Extra. (R, CC) 5.00 The Middle. (PG, R, CC) 5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

12.40 48 Hours: To Catch A Genius. (M, R) A look at the death of Linda Curry from nicotine poisoning in 1994. 1.30 Infomercials. (PG) 2.30 Home Shopping. 4.30 It Is Written. (PG) Religious program. 5.00 Hour Of Power. Religious program.

12.25 MOVIE: Galantuomini. (M, R) (2008) A judge returns to his home town. Donatella Finocchiaro. 2.20 Capitalism: A Love Story. (M, R, CC) 4.30 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia. (R, CC) 5.00 Korean News. 5.35 Japanese News.

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015

Saturday, August 1 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

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6.00pm The Simpsons Movie (2007) Animation. Voice of Dan Castellaneta. Homer accidentally pollutes the town’s water supply. (PG) Family

7.30pm Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars. Jacob is provoked and seeks revenge when he breaks a promise to his wife. (M) Arena

6.30pm America’s Next Cat Star. Host John Fulton is on a quest to ﬁnd the cutest and most charismatic kittens in the US. (PG) Animal Planet

9.00am Tennis. ATP 250. Atlanta Open. Quarter-ﬁnal. Fox Sports 4

8.30pm Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) Comedy. Dan Aykroyd. Newly released from prison, a blues musician reforms his old band to raise funds for a children’s hospital. (PG) Comedy

7.35pm The Borgias. (MA15+) Showcase

7.30pm Treehouse Masters. (PG) Discovery

8.30pm Location Location Location Australia. Veronica must ﬁnd a dream home in Sydney’s inner-west for Karen and Robert, who also want a house with perfect feng shui. (G) LifeStyle

8.30pm Inside The Actors Studio. Betty White joins host James Lipton to discuss her decades-long career, including her star role on The Golden Girls. (PG) Biography

10.25pm Taxi Driver (1976) Drama. Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster. (MA15+) Masterpiece

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 1.10 Postman Pat. (R, CC) 1.25 LahLah’s Adventures. (R) 1.40 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 1.55 Mouk. (R) 2.05 Elmo The Musical. (R, CC) 2.20 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.35 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 Thomas. (R, CC) 5.00 dirtgirlworld. (R, CC) 5.10 Fireman Sam. (R, CC) 5.25 Peppa Pig. (R, CC) 5.30 Octonauts. (R, CC) 5.45 Peg + Cat. (R, CC) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Curious George. (R, CC) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Total Wipeout. (CC) 8.30 Four Corners. (R, CC) 9.20 Louis Theroux. (M, R, CC) 10.20 Dirty Laundry Live. (M, R, CC) 11.05 Cocaine Cowboys. (M, R, CC) 11.40 Mock The Week. (M, R, CC) 2.20 News Update. (R) 2.25 Close. 5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.15 Guess With Jess. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.55 Dennis & Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.20 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 8.55 Studio 3 Gold. (R) 9.00 Good Game: SP. (CC) 9.25 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island. (R, CC) 9.50 Studio 3 Gold. (R) 9.55 Grojband. (R, CC) 10.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.40 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.25 Kobushi. (R, CC) 11.30 Roy. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R, CC) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. (R) 4.00 Pixelface. (R, CC) 4.25 The Aquabats Super Show! (R, CC) 4.50 Slugterra. (R, CC) 5.15 SW: Clone Wars. (R, CC) 5.40 Operation Ouch! (R, CC) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.35 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Outnumbered. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Officially Amazing. (R, CC) 8.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (R, CC) 8.30 Good Game: SP. (R, CC) 9.00 Degrassi: The Next Generation. (PG, R, CC) 9.45 Degrassi. (R, CC) 10.25 Degrassi. (PG, R, CC) 10.50 Close.

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. (PG, R) 7.00 Saturday Disney. (CC) 9.00 Jessie. (R, CC) 9.30 Shake It Up. (R, CC) 10.00 Shopping. (R, CC) 11.00 RSPCA Animal Rescue. (R, CC) 11.30 Great South East. (CC) 12.00 Creek To Coast. (CC) 12.30 Sydney Weekender. (R, CC) 1.00 Qld Weekender. (CC) 1.30 WA Weekender. (PG, CC) 2.00 SA Life Favourites. (CC) 2.30 Intolerant Cooks. (PG) 3.00 Rugby Union. (CC) Shute Shield. Quarter-final. 5.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 6.00 Motorway Patrol. (PG, R, CC) A man takes his life in his hands, on a bridge. 6.30 Castle. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Castle. (M, R, CC) A movie starlet joins the squad. 8.30 MOVIE: The Saint. (M, R) (1997) A thief falls in love with a scientist. Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue. 11.00 Body Of Proof. (M, R, CC) 12.00 Homes Under The Hammer. (R) 1.00 Borderline. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 America’s Game: The Super Bowl Champions. 7.00 A Football Life. (PG) 8.00 Home Shopping. (PG, R) 9.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 10.30 Selling Big. (PG, R) 11.30 Meat Men. (PG, R) 1.30 Hillbilly Handfishin’. (PG) 2.30 Swamp People. (PG, R) 4.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 18. Sydney v Adelaide. 7.15 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 18. Carlton v North Melbourne. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. 10.30 MOVIE: Transporter 3. (M, R, CC) (2008) A former mercenary transports a kidnapped girl. Jason Statham, Robert Knepper. 12.45 MOVIE: Next. (M, R, CC) (2007) A magician is pursued by an FBI agent. Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore. 3.00 Jail. (M, R) A man is arrested on drink-driving charges. 3.30 Meat Men. (PG, R) Follows the owner of a wholesale meat business. 5.00 Zoom TV. (PG, R) 5.30 Home Shopping.

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB Saturday. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 Pirate Express. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 Scooby-Doo! (PG, R) 9.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 The Batman. (R) 10.30 Ben 10. (PG, R) 11.00 The Day My Butt Went Psycho. (C, R, CC) 11.30 Move It. (C, R, CC) 12.00 Kitchen Whiz. (C, R, CC) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. (R) 2.00 The Crew. (PG, CC) 3.00 Green Lantern. (PG, R) 3.30 Gumball. (R) 4.30 Tom And Jerry. (R) 5.30 The Voice. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 MOVIE: What A Girl Wants. (R, CC) (2003) Amanda Bynes. 9.40 MOVIE: Stick It. (PG, R, CC) (2006) Missy Peregrym. 11.50 MOVIE: National Lampoon’s Senior Trip. (M, R, CC) (1995) Matt Frewer, Valerie Mahaffey. 1.45 The Looney Tunes Show. (R) 2.05 Green Lantern: The Animated Series. (PG, R) 2.30 The Amazing World Of Gumball. (R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 MOVIE: The Night My Number Came Up. (PG, R) (1955) 8.00 Shopping. 8.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 9.00 MOVIE: Circus Of Fear. (PG, R, CC) (1966) 10.45 MOVIE: Blue Murder At St Trinian’s. (R, CC) (1957) 12.30 Postcards. (R, CC) 1.00 Duncan’s Thai Kitchen. (R) 1.30 MOVIE: The Trouble With Girls. (R) (1969) 3.30 MOVIE: PT 109. (R, CC) (1963) 6.30 Kalgoorlie Cops. (PG, R, CC) A look at the Kalgoorlie cops. 7.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes. Third Test. England v Australia. Day 4. Morning session. From Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham, England. (Please note: alternative schedule may be shown due to changes to cricket coverage). 10.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes. Third Test. England v Australia. Day 4. Afternoon session. 3.00 MOVIE: The Trouble With Girls. (R) (1969) Elvis Presley, Marilyn Mason. 5.00 My Crazy Obsession. (PG, R) 5.30 Postcards. (R, CC)

7.00pm Football. AFL. Round 18. Gold Coast Suns v West Coast. Fox Sports 3 7.30pm Rugby League. NRL. Sea Eagles v Broncos. Fox Sports 1

The legendary Betty White is a guest on Inside the Actors Studio

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 9.00 Shred! (PG, R) 9.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 11.30 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 12.00 Black Gold. (PG, R) 1.00 RPM. (R, CC) 2.00 Motor Racing. Australian GT Championship. 3.00 The Offroad Adventure Show. (R, CC) 3.30 Undercover Boss. (PG, R) 4.30 Reel Action. 5.00 Ozzie Holiday. (PG) 5.30 Extreme Fishing. (PG, R) 6.30 Monster Jam. (R) 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 7. Ipswich Super Sprint. Highlights. From Queensland Raceway, Ipswich, Queensland. 9.30 Ross Kemp: Back On The Frontline. (MA15+, R) Kemp returns to Afghanistan. 10.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M, R, CC) 11.30 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 12.00 Blokesworld. (MA15+, R) 12.30 Elementary. (M, R, CC) 1.30 Bellator MMA. (M, R) 3.30 48 Hours. (M, R) 4.30 Cops. (PG, R) 5.30 Shred! (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 8.00 Totally Wild. (C, CC) 8.30 Scope. (C, CC) 9.05 The Loop. (PG) 11.35 So You Think You Can Dance. (PG, R) 1.30 Diagnosis Murder. (PG) 4.25 90210. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) Debra gives Ally additional responsibilities. 8.30 The Graham Norton Show. (M, R, CC) Graham Norton chats with Nicole Kidman, Julie Walters and Hugh Bonneville. 9.30 Sex And The City. (PG, R) Carrie is torn about whether to tell Aidan about her renewed relationship with Big. 10.10 Sex And The City. (MA15+, R) The girls travel to Los Angeles. 10.50 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG, R) Hosted by James Corden. 11.50 The Loop. (PG, R) Hosted by Scott Tweedie. 2.25 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. (R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

SBS 2 6.00 Urdu News. 6.20 Indonesian News. 7.00 Russian News. 7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Hungarian News. 8.30 Macedonian News. 9.05 Croatian News. 9.40 Serbian News. 10.20 Portuguese News. 11.05 Japanese News. 11.40 Hong Kong News. 12.00 Hindi News. 12.30 Dutch News. 1.00 Bunk. (PG, R) 1.30 The Soup Investigates. (PG, R) 2.00 The Fabric Of The Cosmos. (R, CC) 3.00 The World Of Jenks. (PG, R) 4.00 Monster Moves. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 From Scratch. (R, CC) 5.30 Knife Fight. (R) 6.00 Fado Of A Grown Man. (PG, R) 6.10 Celebrity Chef. (New Series) 7.30 If You Are The One. (R) Hosted by Meng Fei. 8.35 Doin’ It Baja. (M) Chronicles a 3540km motorcycle trip. 10.20 Real Humans. (M, R) 12.40 24 Hours In Emergency. (M, R, CC) 1.35 MOVIE: Nikita. (AV15+, R) (1990) Anne Parillaud, JeanHugues Anglade, Tcheky Karyo. 3.35 CCTV News In English From Beijing. 5.20 Latin American News. 5.50 Urdu News.

NITV 6.00 Welcome To Wapos Bay. 6.30 Waabiny Time. 7.00 Move It Mob Style. 7.30 Bizou. 8.00 Mugu Kids. 8.30 Go Lingo. 9.00 Tales Of Tatonka. 9.30 Move It Mob Style. 10.00 Kriol Kitchen. 10.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. (PG) 12.00 NITV News Week In Review. 12.30 Football. NEAFL. 3.00 Desperate Measures. 3.30 Our Footprint. 4.00 Around The Campfire. 4.30 Unearthed. 5.00 Ngurra. 5.30 NITV News Week In Review. 6.00 Maori TV’s Native Affairs. 7.30 Seeking Salvation. A look at the history of the Black Church. 8.30 NITV On The Road: Mbantua Festival. 9.30 MOVIE: Dark Age. (MA15+) (1987) Three men track a crocodile. John Jarratt, Nikki Coghill. 11.15 Fit First. (PG) 11.45 Seeking Salvation. 12.45 MOVIE: Dark Age. (MA15+) (1987) 2.30 Flying Boomerangs. (PG) 3.00 From The Heart Of Our Nation. 4.30 Lurujarri Dreaming. 5.00 Away From Country. (PG)

6.00 Morning Programs. 11.00 News. 11.30 Australia Wide. (CC) 12.00 News. (CC) 12.30 Landline. (R, CC) 1.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 2.00 News. 2.30 The Mix. (CC) 3.00 News. (CC) 3.30 The World This Week. (R, CC) 4.00 News. 4.30 #TalkAboutIt. 5.00 News. 5.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 6.00 News. (CC) 6.30 Foreign Correspondent. (R, CC) 7.00 News. (CC) 7.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 8.00 Four Corners. (R, CC) 8.45 The Quarters. 9.00 News. (CC) 9.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 10.00 IQ2. (R, CC) 11.00 News. 11.30 One Plus One. (R, CC) 12.00 National Press Club Address. (R, CC) 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 #TalkAboutIt. (R) 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 Landline. (R, CC) 4.00 BBC World News. 4.15 BBC Sport Today. 4.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 5.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 5.30 Australian Story. (R, CC) 0108

ABC NEWS

3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015 | Dubbo Weekender

Sunday, August 2 MOVIE: Bachelorette

Obama At War

Grand Designs

ELEVEN, 8.30pm, M (2012)

SBS, 10.25pm

ABC, 7.40pm

There comes a point in your life when you must assess your group of friends and cut ties if they don’t cut it. Why generous and sweet Becky (Rebel Wilson) still keeps a trio of malicious high-school friends about is anyone’s guess. Their horrid self-obsessed natures come to the fore when Becky asks them to be bridesmaids at her wedding. Cue a bunch of, “It’s not fair, it should have been me” cries before the girls – Regan (Kristen Dunst), Gena (Lizzy Caplan) and Katie (Isla Fisher) – gleefully cause havoc to the wedding preparations. It may not have the same level of heart as Bridesmaids, but the performances are spot-on, even if you are left with a bitter taste afterwards.

When Barack Obama took office as US president in 2008, he took the reins from George W. Bush, whose presidency had in many ways been shaped by the tragic events of September 11, 2001 – and the military conflicts that followed it. Obama set out to end the war in Iraq and keep the US out of any new conflicts, but that has proven more difficult than he imagined. Now, Obama finds himself in the exact kind of situation he was trying to avoid as America tries to defeat the Islamic State terrorist organisation and deal with the civil war in Syria. Veteran journalist Martin Smith examines Obama’s administration.

Dream homes become reality ality in this fascinating British show, presented by y design expert Kevin McCloud (right). Tonight, having tired of London, single mum Natasha asha Cargill has only six months to build a house in n the country for herself and her son, which has been een designed by her friend and is riddled with planning constrictions. Not only that, at, but Natasha has only £633,000 00 to spend on both land and construction. With very little ttle contingency to fall back on, n, it is not long before the pressure ure to not just complete the house, se, but build it according to the he many rigid rules, starts to take its toll. Will she manage age it? Tune in to find out.

ABC

PRIME7

WIN

6.00 Rage. (PG, CC) 7.00 Weekend Breakfast. (CC) 9.00 Insiders. (CC) 10.00 Offsiders. (CC) 10.30 Australia Wide. (R, CC) 11.00 The World This Week. (R, CC) 11.30 Songs Of Praise. (R, CC) 12.00 Landline. (CC) 1.00 Gardening Australia. (R, CC) 1.30 The Mix. (R, CC) 2.00 When Bjork Met Attenborough. (R, CC) 3.00 Tender. (PG, R, CC) 4.25 Father Brown. (PG, R, CC) Father Brown gets into a bind. 5.10 Restoration Man. (R, CC) (Final) Presented by George Clarke.

6.00 Home Shopping. (CC) 7.00 Weekend Sunrise. (CC) Latest news, sport and weather. 10.00 The Morning Show: Weekend. (PG, CC) Highlights from the past week. 11.00 To Be Advised. 4.00 Medical Emergency. (PG, R, CC) Thirty six-yearold Brent is rushed to The Alfred Hospital with lifethreatening symptoms. 4.30 Border Security – Australia’s Front Line. (PG, R, CC) Narrated by Grant Bowler. 5.00 News. (CC) 5.30 Sydney Weekender. (CC) Hosted by Mike Whitney.

6.00 6.30 7.00 10.00

6.00 The Book Club. (CC) Host Jennifer Byrne is joined by Kate Langbroek and Andy Griffiths for a passionate discussion about books. 6.30 Compass: Limited Partnership Pt 1. (PG, CC) Charts a gay couple’s 40-year fight for recognition of their marriage. 7.00 News. (CC) 7.40 Grand Designs. (CC) Kevin McCloud meets a single mum who wants to build a home shaped like two enormous periscopes. 8.30 Miniseries: The Politician’s Husband. (M, CC) Part 1 of 3. A couple’s marriage is threatened after the husband’s political career stalls. 9.30 Silent Witness. (M, R, CC) Leo is left in emotional turmoil after an old friend commits suicide, a decade after her sister was killed. 10.30 Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb Vs Gravity. (CC) Takes a look at Elizabeth Streb. 11.25 MOVIE: Balibo. (M, R, CC) (2009) A war correspondent searches for missing journalists. Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac.

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 Sunday Night. (CC) Current affairs program. Hosted by Chris Bath. 8.00 Dancing With The Stars. (CC) A new group of celebrities are partnered with professional dancers to see who has the fanciest footwork. Hosted by Shane Bourne and Edwina Bartholomew, with judges Todd McKenney, Helen Richey and Kym Johnson. 10.00 Bones. (M, CC) With time running out before his execution, the team works to save a death row inmate after evidence surfaces throwing into doubt his original conviction which was based on Brennan’s own work. 11.00 Covert Affairs. (M, CC) Annie risks her identity to reconnect with the Russian banker who financed the bombing. Auggie is forced to juggle two relationships. Calder finds a familiar face in the internal investigation.

1.15 MOVIE: That’s Right, You’re Wrong. (R) (1939) 2.50 Miniseries: The Politician’s Husband. (M, R, CC) 3.50 Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb Vs Gravity. (R, CC) 5.00 The New Inventors. (R, CC) 5.30 Eggheads. (R, CC)

12.00 Do No Harm. (M) In a desperate attempt to keep “his” son from Jason , Ian kidnaps him and hides him from both Jason and Olivia. 1.00 Home Shopping. 5.30 Early News. (CC) Local, national and overseas news, including sport and the latest weather.

PAW Patrol. (R, CC) Dora The Explorer. (R, CC) Weekend Today. (CC) Wide World Of Sports. (PG, CC) NRL Sunday Footy Show. (PG, CC) Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways. (PG, R, CC) Follows the Foo Fighters. Wild Life Of Tim Faulkner. (R, CC) Hosted by Tim Faulkner. Tigers About The House. (PG, R, CC) Presented by Giles Clark. Rugby League. (CC) NRL. Round 21. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Penrith Panthers. From ANZ Stadium, Sydney.

TEN

SBS

6.00 Creflo Dollar Ministries. (CC) 6.30 Hillsong. (CC) 7.00 Mass For You At Home. 7.30 Joel Osteen. (CC) 8.00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield. (R, CC) 8.30 Studio 10: Sunday. (CC) 10.00 The Bolt Report. (CC) 11.00 Bondi Rescue. (PG, R, CC) 11.30 Gold Coast Cops. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 The Talk. (PG, CC) 1.00 Good Chef Bad Chef. (R, CC) 1.30 The Offroad Adventure Show. (CC) 2.00 iFish. (R, CC) 3.00 The Bolt Report. (R, CC) 4.00 Motor Racing. (CC) 5.00 Eyewitness News. (CC)

6.00 Japanese News. 6.10 Hong Kong News. 6.30 Chinese News. 7.00 Al Jazeera English News. (CC) 7.30 Italian News. 8.10 Filipino News. 8.40 French News. 9.30 Greek News From Cyprus. 10.30 German News. 11.00 Spanish News. 12.00 Arabic News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 Cycling. Evocities MTB Series. Highlights. 2.00 Speedweek. (CC) 4.00 Motorcycle Racing. (CC) Superbike World Championship. Highlights. 4.30 Cycling. Port To Port MTB. Highlights. 5.30 Destination Flavour Bitesize. (R) 5.35 Churchill And The Fascist Plot. (PG, R, CC)

6.00 News. (CC) 7.00 The Voice. (PG, CC) With some help from coaches Ricky Martin, Delta Goodrem, Joel Madden, Benji Madden and Jessie J, a group of contestants sets out to prove they have what it takes to be a singing sensation and claim the prize of a recording contract. Hosted by Darren McMullen and Sonia Kruger. 9.00 60 Minutes. (CC) Featuring reports from Liz Hayes, Tara Brown, Allison Langdon, Michael Usher and Charles Wooley. 10.10 A.D. Kingdom And Empire. (AV15+, CC) Pilate closes in on the Zealot assassin. Peter and the apostles return to Jerusalem where they encounter a host of refugees at the safe house. Stephen speaks out against the temple and pays the ultimate price. 11.10 Stalker. (M, CC) Beth and Jack investigate after a female lifeguard and her loved ones become the target of a murderous stalker, who the officers suspect is tormenting the woman because of a tragic incident from her past.

6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) Hosted by Grant Denyer. 6.30 Bondi Rescue. (PG, CC) (Series return) A surfer is sucked into a vortex. 7.00 Gold Coast Cops. (PG, CC) (Series return) Working on a tip off, Sergeant Blair Casey and the team execute an emergency raid on a drug dealer. 7.30 Modern Family. (PG, R, CC) The Dunphys have a near-death experience which causes everyone to reevaluate their lives. 8.00 Modern Family. (PG, R, CC) Claire is furious at her neighbours for keeping their boat on their front lawn. Jay tries to potty train Joe. 8.30 CSI: Cyber. (M, CC) The team investigates a series of abductions in which the victim’s social media are being kept up to date. 9.30 NCIS. (M, R, CC) The team searches for Bodnar, the man they hold responsible for the murders of Ziva’s father and Vance’s wife. 10.30 MOVIE: The Descendants. (M, R, CC) (2011) A lawyer reconnects with his daughters. George Clooney, Shailene Woodley.

6.30 World News. (CC) 7.35 Byzantium: A Tale Of Three Cities: Capital Of A New Empire. (PG, CC) Part 3 of 3. British journalist Simon SebagMontefiore concludes his look at the history of Istanbul. 8.35 The Murder Trial. (M, CC) Remotely operated cameras document the murder trial of Nat Fraser in the High Court in Edinburgh. Fraser was accused of killing his wife while he was on parole for her attempted murder, and although he appealed his first conviction he was compelled to face the bench a second time. 10.25 Obama At War. (M, CC) Journalist Martin Smith examines the US President Barack Obama administration’s struggle to deal with the Syrian Civil War. 11.30 MOVIE: Lantana. (M, R, CC) (2001) A web of love, sex and deceit emerges, drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful. Anthony LaPaglia, Rachael Blake, Kerry Armstrong.

12.05 The Following. (AV15+, CC) 1.00 Arrow. (M, R, CC) 2.00 What Would You Do? (M, R, CC) 2.50 Nine Presents. (CC) 3.00 20/20. (R, CC) 4.00 Good Morning America: Sunday. (CC) 5.00 News: Early Edition. (CC) 5.30 Today. (CC)

1.00 Infomercials. (PG, R) 2.30 Home Shopping. 4.00 Life Today With James Robison. (PG, R) Religious program. 4.30 CBS This Morning. (CC) Morning news and talk show. Hosted by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell.

1.40 MOVIE: Walesa: Man Of Hope. (M, R) (2013) A worker rises to prominence. Robert Wieckiewicz. 3.50 Our Food. (R, CC) Part 2 of 4. 5.00 Korean News. News from Seoul. 5.35 Japanese News.

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3-DAY LOCAL TV GUIDE.

Dubbo Weekender | Friday 31.07.2015 to Sunday 02.08.2015

Sunday, August 2 PAYTV HIGHLIGHTS MOVIES

GENERAL

DOCUMENTARY

SPORT

6.15pm Snowpiercer (2014) Sci-ﬁ. Chris Evans. After a global warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, survivors board a train towards safety. (MA15+) Premiere

6.30pm Orange Is The New Black. Norma’s healing powers draw more believers while Piper creates a new business venture. (MA15+) Showcase

6.30pm Science Of Stupid. Hosted by Richard Hammond. (M) National Geographic

9.00am Special Olympics. From Los Angeles, California. ESPN

7.30pm Vanity Fair Confidential. A former soldier reveals what happened the night soldier Barry Winchell was killed in army barracks. (M) Crime & Investigation

1.10pm Football. AFL. Round 18. Port Adelaide v St Kilda. From Adelaide Oval. Fox Footy

7.45pm This Is England (2006) Crime. (MA15+) World Movies 8.30pm Gone Girl (2014) Thriller. Ben Afﬂeck, Rosamund Pike. On his ﬁfth wedding anniversary, a man reports his wife missing. (MA15+) Premiere

ABC2/ABC KIDS 6.00 Children’s Programs. 12.30 Arthur. (R) 12.40 Maya The Bee. (R, CC) 1.00 Humf. (R, CC) 1.10 Postman Pat. (R, CC) 1.25 Lah-Lah’s Adventures. (R) 1.40 Abney & Teal. (R, CC) 1.55 Mouk. (R) 2.05 Elmo The Musical. (R, CC) 2.20 Q Pootle 5. (R, CC) 2.35 Little Princess. (R, CC) 2.50 Dinosaur Train. (R) 3.20 Timmy Time. (R, CC) 3.30 Play School. (R, CC) 4.00 Bananas In Pyjamas. (R, CC) 4.10 Hoopla. (R, CC) 4.25 Mister Maker. (R, CC) 4.45 Thomas. (R, CC) 5.00 Meet The Small Potatoes. (R, CC) 5.45 Peg + Cat. (R, CC) 6.00 Ben And Holly. (R, CC) 6.10 Peter Rabbit. (R, CC) 6.25 Curious George. (R) 6.50 Shaun The Sheep. (R, CC) 7.00 Spicks And Specks. (PG, R, CC) 7.30 Wild Things With Dom Monaghan. (PG, CC) 8.15 The Checkout. (PG, R, CC) 8.30 Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender. (M, R, CC) 9.55 Secrets Of Mexico’s Drug War. (M, R, CC) 10.50 Mock The Week. (M, R, CC) 1.25 News Update. (R) 1.30 Close. 5.00 The Numtums. (R, CC) 5.05 Driver Dan’s Story Train. (R, CC) 5.15 Guess With Jess. (R, CC) 5.30 Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps. (R, CC) 5.40 Olivia. (R, CC) 5.55 Children’s Programs.

ABC3 6.00 Children’s Programs. 6.40 Sally Bollywood. (R, CC) 6.55 Dennis & Gnasher. (R, CC) 7.20 Jamie’s Got Tentacles. (R, CC) 7.45 Dr Dimensionpants. (R) 8.05 SheZow. (R, CC) 8.20 Almost Naked Animals. (R, CC) 8.30 Riders Of Berk. (R, CC) 8.55 Studio 3 Gold. 9.00 Operation Ouch! (R) 9.25 Total Drama: Pahkitew Island. (R, CC) 9.50 Studio 3 Gold. 9.55 Grojband. (R, CC) 10.15 Numb Chucks. (R, CC) 10.40 Camp Lakebottom. (R, CC) 11.25 Kobushi. (R, CC) 11.30 Roy. (R, CC) 12.00 Dani’s House. (R, CC) 12.30 M.I. High. (R, CC) 1.55 House Of Anubis. (PG, R) 2.05 House Of Anubis. (R) 3.00 Deadly Pole To Pole. (PG, R, CC) 3.25 WAC. (R, CC) 3.55 Studio 3. (R) 4.00 The Legend Of Dick And Dom. (R, CC) 4.30 Hank Zipzer. (R, CC) 5.00 Life With Boys. (R, CC) 5.25 Mal.com. (R, CC) (Final) 5.40 Bushwhacked! (R, CC) 6.10 The Penguins Of Madagascar. (R) 6.30 Horrible Histories. (R, CC) 7.00 Outnumbered. (R, CC) 7.45 Great Big Adv. (R, CC) 8.00 The Haunting Hour. (PG, CC) 8.50 Karaoke High. (R, CC) 9.15 Good Game: Pocket Edition. (PG, R, CC) 9.20 Rage. (PG, R) 1.55 Close.

6.40pm Nashville. With her wedding quickly approaching, Rayna starts to get cold feet after realising life as Mrs Wheeler might not be all it’s cracked up to be. (M) SoHo 7.30pm Million Dollar Listing NY. (M) Arena

7TWO 6.00 Shopping. 7.00 Tomorrow’s World. (PG) 7.30 Michael Youssef. (PG) 8.00 David Jeremiah. (PG) 8.30 Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. (PG, R, CC) 12.00 Travel Oz. (PG, CC) 1.30 The Travel Bug. (PG) 2.30 Rugby Union. Shute Shield. Quarter-final. 4.30 Swimming. FINA World Championships. From Kazan Stadium Arena, Russia. 7.30 Escape To The Country. (R) Jules Hudson heads to Buckinghamshire. 9.30 Fantasy Homes By The Sea. Jenni Falconer helps a family who are in search of a home on the south west English coast. 10.30 Best Houses Australia. Hosted by Gary Takle. 11.00 Megastructures: China’s Smart Tower. (PG, R) 12.00 Make My Home Bigger. (PG, R) Presented by Jonnie Irwin. 12.30 Swimming. FINA World Championships. Replay. 2.35 Harry’s Practice. (R, CC) 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show. (R) 4.00 Dr Oz. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

7MATE 6.00 Shopping. 6.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 7.30 Shopping. 9.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R) 10.00 AFL Game Day. (PG, CC) 11.30 Great Escapes. 12.30 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG) 1.30 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction. (PG) 2.30 Hillbilly Handfishin’. (PG) 3.30 Dust Up. (PG, R) 4.30 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 18. Fremantle v GWS. From Domain Stadium, Perth. 7.30 MOVIE: The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian. (PG, R, CC) (2008) Four children return to the magical land of Narnia only to discover the kingdom in disarray. Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes. 10.30 MOVIE: Resident Evil: Apocalypse. (M, R, CC) (2004) A super soldier attempts to escape a quarantined city full of zombies. Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory. 12.20 Football. (CC) AFL. Round 18. Essendon v Western Bulldogs. 3.30 Dust Up. (PG, R) 4.00 Hook, Line And Sinker. (PG, R)

8.00pm Brain Games. Shows how mental shortcuts often lead us astray. (PG) National Geographic

GO! 6.00 Thunderbirds. (R) 7.00 Kids’ WB. (PG) 7.05 Looney Tunes. 7.30 Captain Flinn And The Pirate Dinosaurs. (C, CC) 8.00 Teen Titans Go! (PG, R) 8.30 ScoobyDoo! (PG, R) 9.00 Looney Tunes. (R) 9.30 Adv Time. (PG, R) 10.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 10.30 The Batman. (R) 11.00 Power Rangers Dino Charge. (PG) (New Series) 11.30 Rabbids Invasion. (PG, R) 12.00 Tom And Jerry. (R) 12.30 SpongeBob. (R) 1.30 Danoz. 2.00 The Crew. (CC) 3.30 Young Justice. (PG, R) 4.30 The Batman. (PG, R) 5.30 Thunderbirds Are Go. (PG, R) 6.30 MOVIE: Wrath Of The Titans. (PG, R, CC) (2012) Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson. 8.30 The Big Bang Theory. (PG, R, CC) Leonard and Amy go on a road trip. 9.30 Gotham. (AV15+, CC) 10.30 Arrow. (AV15+, CC) 11.30 Almost Human. (AV15+, CC) 12.30 Anger Management. (M, R, CC) 1.00 Beware The Batman. (M, R) 2.00 The Batman. (PG, R) 3.00 Young Justice. (PG, R) 3.30 Yu-GiOh! (PG, R) 4.00 PAW Patrol. (R, CC) 4.30 Robocar Poli. (R) 4.50 Thunderbirds. (R) 5.30 Yu-Gi-Oh! Classic. (R)

GEM 6.00 Skippy. (R) 6.30 Tasty Conversations. (R, CC) 6.40 MOVIE: The Amorous Prawn. (R) (1962) 8.30 Danoz. 9.30 Rainbow Country. (R) 10.00 Avengers. (PG, R) 11.00 MOVIE: Pacific Destiny. (R, CC) (1956) 1.00 Australian Geographic Adventures. (R, CC) 1.30 Getaway. (PG, R, CC) 2.00 MOVIE: Annie Get Your Gun. (R) (1950) 4.15 MOVIE: Spencer’s Mountain. (R, CC) (1963) 6.30 David Attenborough’s Life: Insects. (R, CC) Hosted by Sir David Attenborough. 7.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes. Third Test. England v Australia. Day 5. Morning session. (Please note: alternative schedule may be shown due to changes to cricket coverage). 10.30 Cricket. (CC) The Ashes. Third Test. England v Australia. Day 5. Afternoon session. 3.00 New Style Direct. 3.30 Global Shop. 4.30 River Cottage Bites. 4.45 Soccer. International Champions Cup. Fiorentina v Barcelona. From Stadio Artemio Franchi, Florence, Italy.

3.00pm Football. AFL. Round 18. Essendon v Western Bulldogs. From Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. Fox Sports 3 Taylor Schilling stars in Orange is the New Black

ONE 6.00 Shopping. 8.00 Motor Racing. World Series Sprintcars. Scott Darley Challenge. Night 1. Replay. 9.00 Movie Juice. (R, CC) 9.30 Monster Jam. (R) 10.30 Reel Action. (R) 11.00 Hardliners. (PG, R) 11.30 Shred! (PG, R) 12.00 Undercover Boss. (PG) 1.00 World’s Busiest. (PG, R) 2.00 Temporary Australians. (PG, R) 2.30 Just Go. (R, CC) 3.00 4x4 Adventures. (R) 4.00 Far Flung With Gary Mehigan. (R, CC) 5.00 Extreme Boats’ Big Angry Fish. (PG, R) 5.30 iFish. 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 M*A*S*H. (PG, R) 7.30 Cops. (PG, R) 8.30 Motor Racing. (CC) International V8 Supercars Championship. Round 7. Ipswich Super Sprint. Race 20. Replay. From Queensland Raceway, Ipswich, Queensland. 9.30 MOVIE: Collateral. (M, R, CC) (2004) 12.00 World Sport. 12.30 The Glades. (M) (Final) 1.30 The Americans. (MA15+, R, CC) 2.30 48 Hours. (M, R) 3.30 Cops. (PG, R) 4.30 Monster Jam. (R) 5.30 Shred! (PG, R)

ELEVEN 6.00 Toasted TV. 9.00 Infomercials. (PG) 9.30 TMNT. (R) 10.00 Mako: Island Of Secrets. (C, CC) 10.30 Brady Bunch. (R) 11.00 Infomercials. (PG) 11.30 ST: Next Gen. (PG, R) 12.30 90210. (PG, R) 2.30 Neighbours. (R, CC) 5.00 Mork & Mindy. (PG, R) 5.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 6.00 Family Feud: Sunday. (CC) 6.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) 7.00 Futurama. (PG, R) A cat launches a plan to destroy Earth. 7.30 The Simpsons. (PG, R, CC) The family gets sick from a vegetarian meal. 8.30 MOVIE: Bachelorette. (M, R, CC) (2012) Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at the wedding of a woman they used to ridicule in high school. Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan. 10.20 House Of Lies. (MA15+) 11.00 The Late Late Show With James Corden. (PG) 12.00 Nurse Jackie. (M, R) 12.40 Star Trek: The Next Generation. (PG, R) 4.30 Becker. (PG, R, CC) 5.00 Home Shopping.

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CROSSWORD 18,947

tenth queen? (5) 23. Go on – act out this figure (7) ACROSS 24. Equality 7. Ignore area enjoyed by one (6) in political 8. The closing group (6) part of the last letter (6) 25. I object to 10. Went higher, repaired gear having 100 going spare (6) arms and legs DOWN (7) 1. Obtain 11. Yet it may produce spirits professional remedy (7) (5) 2. Dieting led to 12. Animals return to grass being fired? (7) 3. Expression of (4) contempt from 13. In a thin stupid person layer suitable for star-gazers? (5) 4. Charm(5) ing – but can’t 17. Policeman always be victohas one but may not take it, rious? (7) on the beat (5) 5. The madness of a chap 18. Drop these with first-class actors? (4) upbringing (5) 22. Seize the

CRYPTIC CLUES

6. He will ring – to get this response? (5) 9. Leave to enter as a concession (9) 14. Chivalrous don could cite about nine (7) 15. Put plum in packet in suitcases (7) 16. Confound Edward being undersized! (7) 19. Lighting using 50 units of current (5) 20. Half-open – attempt getting in (5) 21. Anaesthetic enough for three (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS 7. Sudden (6)

8. Succeed (6) 10. Show (7) 11. Humiliation (5) 12. Nourish (4) 13. Demean (5) 17. Truck (5) 18. Disengage (4) 22. Fleshy (5) 23. Waiter (7) 24. Amend (6) 25. Brandy (6)

GO FIGURE >> The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are given (that is, from left to right and top to bottom). Use only the numbers below the diagram to complete its blank squares and use each of the nine numbers only once.

DOWN 1. Repel (4,3) 2. Flourish (7) 3. Charm (5) 4. Cockerel (7) 5. Soothe (5) 6. Brush (5) 9. Cant (9) 14. Make up (7) 15. Weird (7) 16. Behaviour (7) 19. Extra (5) 20. Arc (5) 21. Devil (5)

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JUST LIKE CATS & DOGS by Dave T. Phipps

1. Pull back part of the lock (4) 3. Then read how to become a partisan (8) 9. Effects improvements about official documents (7) 10. Rubbish that’s quite easily digested (5) 11. The main subject read by some students (12) 13. Conflict is rampant at the back of the street (6) 15. One who gets a kick out of gambling? (6) 17. These beams destroyed as fire ran yards! (5-3,4) 20. A running knot for a ring in the snout (5) 21. Piece of furniture to provide comfort (7) 22. Penalised by being shoved

around in the wrong way (8) 23. Kinky name for grass (4)

midnight? (5) 19. Take a quick picture of the game (4)

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position. Rounding out the top five contributing factors are sun exposure, gravity, smoking and facial expressions. z An anteater (pictured) can grow to be 1.8 metres long, yet its mouth is only 25mm wide. z Reportedly, anyone caught in the jaws of a crocodile can release him- or herself instantly by pressing on the animal’s eyeballs (though I cannot personally attest to the veracity of this claim). z In a recent survey of nearly 1500 American adults, only 36 per cent of respondents could correctly name all three branches of the United States government. Even more disturbing, a full 35 per cent couldn’t name even one branch. Thought for the Day: “It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” – Oscar Wilde

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ARIES (MAR 21-APR 20) The spark of enthusiasm that runs through this week is fired by a chance encounter. Expect to meet someone special who makes an offer to improve your cash flow. In a highly creative time, be determined to do some things that really bring you personal enjoyment. Those who are on holiday are in an especially lovely place emotionally. Finances should at last be on a much more even keel.

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TAURUS (APR 21-MAY 21) A

couple of indulgences could leave you feeling guilty but don’t be so hard on yourself. You may have to hold back on buying a couple of large purchases, but a couple of small ones should be okay. The weekend gives you a chance to shine and show what you are capable of. This is not a time to be modest! A fiery partner is just what you need right now. They will rekindle your sense of humour.

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GEMINI (MAY 22-JUN 21) In a

positive week you can afford to ignore some smaller irritations. Why spoil what can be a happy time when some things can be dealt with later? Sometimes you are a bit hard on yourself. When it comes to romance, be cautious about giving your heart. Waiting for the right person and the right time really is worthwhile. If you are asking for promotion or a rise, this is as good a time as any. Don’t demand though, suggest instead.

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CANCER (JUN 22-JUL 22) Are

you being urged to get out there and get on with things? Maybe this is not the best time to start something new. To be successful it is important that your heart is in it. Sometimes that means waiting for the right time for you. In a quieter week there is the chance to do something very personal for yourself. Be a little indulgent. Those who are on holiday can really relax and any celebrations should go well.

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LEO (JUL 23-AUG 23) Blast negativity wherever you find it this week. Is someone or something getting in the way of you having a great time? You are in no mood to stand for this. You just want to get on. Determination will get the message across pretty quickly. Have the courage now to start on a journey to fulfil your ambitions. Who has told you that’s not possible? Why are you listening?!

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VIRGO (AUG 24-SEP 23) Being

responsible doesn’t always mean taking the dull route! Getting away and having some fun is essential if you are to thrive and help others. When romance comes this week you may have a strange feeling. Have you been down this route before? What would you change this time? Something that you have been keeping under wraps could be revealed this weekend. Your friends will be astonished.

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LIBRA (SEP 24-OCT 23) A hectic time recently may have left you wanting some quiet periods to recover. Although you love the company of others, it can be overwhelming at times. Popularity is great but everyone needs time to themselves. Romance comes from midweek onward, with the chance to make real progress. Be sure what you ask for is what you really want though. Being at your charming best pays dividends this week. Your motivation? Love! SCORPIO (OCT 24-NOV 22)

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frantic time of late, your battery may be running low. There are those who would stop you recharging in the way that you should. Does that mean getting them out of your hair and seeking pastures new? Probably. Don that sun hat and do your own thing. The love and good feelings that you get from folk are truly uplifting. Frantic thoughts can be changed for relaxing and loving conversations.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22-JAN 20)

Make a list of all of those small problems that are niggling away at you. One by one, blast them away with optimism. The more determined you are this week to make changes, the better your mood. Aiming for a relaxing weekend? Make sure the company you keep fits with that mood! Any restless moments can be dispelled by having that intimate conversation. Don’t put it off any longer.

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AQUARIUS (JAN 21-FEB 19)

You need to get organised. Get small but irritating jobs done and you will feel much better. Those who are taking a break should try to sit in the sun and make a list of essential actions to take. Does that sound a bit like a military action? Well, that’s one way of doing it. You need someone to have fun with. Meeting new people is high on your list – get going now.

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Some pretty positive people come your way. That should help to balance some of the shaky thoughts you have been having recently. We all have times when our confidence is rocked. Is your sense of direction muddled right now? A chat with someone at the beginning of this week should help. Even so, you must be frank and to the point. Being yourself has never been more important. People will take you at face value.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 23-DEC 21) Having had an enjoyably

Monday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! You share your birthday with legendary crooner Tony Bennett (below left) who turns 89. This is a period of fast and furious growth. Often taken by surprise when the unexpected happens, it will be far from a dull period, Leo. Being flexible stops you feeling off balance. Tuesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Also celebrating today is US president Barack Obama (below), 54. When things move too fast for you it can be upsetting. However, think of all the times when you have faced a challenge and triumphed. Let’s see more of the same, Leo! Wednesday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! The speed with which you adapt to any changes can make the difference between stress and success. Take a more relaxed approach when plans do not go perfectly, Leo. Thursday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Grasping the nettle of change means a few sharp shocks, Leo. Even so, you will certainly benefit from it. Practise being more of an optimist. Friday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! It is easier for you to look on the bright side rather than the negative one. Keep that in mind when others force changes on you, Leo. Staying in charge can mean being a bit more demanding.

PISCES (FEB 20-MAR

20) In the ‘here and now’ there are some moments of absolute perfection this week, so enjoy every one. Fussing over the future won’t change it at the moment, so do relax! Your smile really is contagious and will bring the sunshine back into someone’s life. One-to-one relationships give the most satisfaction. Give yourself the chance to meet someone special by accepting that invitation!

Saturday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Everyone wants you to succeed, Leo. Well, almost everyone! Keep negative folk at arm’s length. You have far too much to be getting on with to listen to them.

SOLUTIONS AND ANSWERS for this week’s puzzles and tests The Big 1 Crossword 3332

This week's Sudoku

This week's Snowflake

Mega Maze

Find the Words solution 862 A sport of kings DUAL CROSSWORD 18,947 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 7 Region; 8 Finale; 10 Climbed; 11 Still; 12 Reed; 13 Filmy; 17 Pulse; 18 Cast; 22 Annex; 23 Octagon; 24 Parity; 25 Meagre. Down: 1 Procure; 2 Ignited; 3 Booby; 4 Winsome; 5 Mania; 6 Hello; 9 Admission; 14 Quixote; 15 Baggage; 16 Stunted; 19 Lamps; 20 Entry; 21 Ether. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 7 Abrupt; 8 Follow; 10 Display; 11 Shame; 12 Feed; 13 Lower; 17 Lorry; 18 Undo; 22 Plump; 23 Steward; 24 Revise; 25 Cognac. Down: 1 Ward off; 2 Prosper; 3 Spell; 4 Rooster; 5 Allay; 6 Sweep; 9 Hypocrisy; 14 Compose; 15 Uncanny; 16 Conduct; 19 Spare; 20 Curve; 21 Demon. CryptoQuote answer

This week's Go Figure!

Sunday’s Birthday Luck: Happy Birthday! Social life needs balancing more with your work. Trying to mix the two is probably not the best way. Leo, you are popular but sometimes your social life is too strong.

DUAL CROSSWORD TOO 20,304 CRYPTIC SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Ward; 3 Adherent; 9 Reforms; 10 Tripe; 11 Oceanography; 13 Strife; 15 Punter; 17 Infra-red rays; 20 Noose; 21 Console; 22 Punished; 23 Bent. Down: 1 War-horse; 2 Rifle; 4 Design; 5 Extramundane; 6 Epithet; 7 Toes; 8 Transformers; 12 Crescent; 14 Rangoon; 16 Oracle; 18 Atone; 19 Snap. QUICK SOLUTIONS Across: 1 Peak; 3 Mandible; 9 Outcast; 10 Miner; 11 Perverseness; 13 Corner; 15 Stanza; 17 Consecration; 20 Alone; 21 Elegant; 22 Disaster; 23 Deny. Down: 1 Prospect; 2 Alter; 4 Attest; 5 Demonstrated; 6 Benison; 7 Earn; 8 Carelessness; 12 Mainstay; 14 Riotous; 16 Accede; 18 Irate; 19 Raid.

The Baker's Dozen Trivia Test: 1. 212 degrees. 2. Eight. 3. A sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet. 4. A raven and a dove. 5. “Lyin’ Eyes” by the Eagles. 6. Dada. 7. Obelisk. 8. John Ford, who won four. 9. Charlotte Cooper, 1900. 10. IBM. 11. Jack Nicklaus, 1983 and 1987. 12. Billabong. 13. “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”, by Paul Simon in 1975, on his “Still Crazy After All These Years” album. Simon wrote and recorded the song just after his divorce. The song went to No. 1 and stayed at the top for three weeks.

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